Best time of year to sail Gib to Canaries

[pcatterall]

Our group want to move from Spain to Lanzarote.
What is the best time of year to do this please?

 

[KellysEye]

We sailed from Portugal to the Canaries leaving in September.

 

[GHA]

Can be done year round though might need to wait for a weather window.

Opencpn has an excellent climatology plugin showing average conditions based on last 30 years data >

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/d...encpn_user_manual:plugins:weather:climatology
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/climatology.html

 

[TQA]

Late October / November departures will have an increased risk of encountering bad weather.