Today's best beaches: Tenerife

Busy Costa Adeje family beach with golden sand, calm-water baseline, strong services, and a restaurant-lined promenade.

A sheltered dark-sand town beach in Playa San Juan with flat promenade access, services, restaurants, and baseline lifeguard evidence.

Wide, accessible Los Cristianos beach with breakwater-calmed water, a promenade setting, and practical services close by.

Urban golden-sand beach beside Los Cristianos harbour, with calm-water character, easy promenade access, and practical services close by.

Classic Costa Adeje resort beach pair with volcanic sand, easy promenade access, strong services, and a lively food-and-sunset edge.

Compact Costa Adeje resort beach with dark sand, promenade services, accessible access, and a sheltered bay beside Fañabé and La Pinta.

Long, family-friendly San Andrés beach with golden sand, calm breakwater-protected water, palms, and practical services along the shore.

Black-sand Puerto de la Cruz beach complex with gardens, promenade access, family services, and three connected bathing sectors.

North-coast black-sand beach below Mesa del Mar, reached by tunnel and backed by parking, toilets, and calm-family beach context from official sources.

Sheltered black-sand urban bay in Icod de los Vinos, with accessible access, showers, toilets, food terraces, small parking, and a calmer family-oriented setting for the north coast.

A calm dark-sand Alcala beach by the La Jaquita promenade, with adapted access, showers, toilets, restaurants, and baseline rescue evidence.

The open Leocadio Machado side of El Médano, beside Playa Sur and Montaña Roja, is the wind-sport stretch for kitesurf and windsurf days.