Today's best beaches: Tenerife

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Sheltered Radazul bathing area with two small black-sand coves, breakwater access, clear-water snorkel appeal, parking, bus access, and marina-side services.

Small traditional Puerto de la Cruz bathing area with black sand, pebbles, volcanic rocks, and natural pools beside Paseo de San Telmo.

Semi-urban black-sand and callaos beach below the Martiánez cliff, with promenade access, nearby food, and a surf-oriented north-coast feel.

A small golden-sand resort cove below Abama with parking above the coast, restaurants nearby, and a stepped walk down to the beach.

A small urban Alcalá cove of gravel and black sand by the old fishing harbour, with foot showers, bins, nearby food, parking, and interurban bus context.

Family-friendly Bajamar natural-pool complex with two large seawater pools, a small children’s pool, a protected sandy pocket, and urban services close by.

Two saltwater pools below Tacoronte cliffs with parking, solarium space, showers, and a careful final road descent.