The British Consulate in Tenerife is located in the island capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the north eastern coast. Santa Cruz can be accessed by car and bus from all the major resorts of the island.

British Consulate Address in Tenerife

Plaza Weyler, 8, 1º
38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain

Telephone enquiries:
902 109 356 (in Spain)
(+34) 917 146 403 (outside Spain)
Consular phone lines are open from 8:00am to 4:00pm

Website: Tenerife Consulate

Opening hours

The consulate is open to visitors Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:30am to 1:30pm, excluding public holidays. Consular phone lines are open from 8:00am to 4:00pm.

Emergency Travel Document (ETDs)

You can apply for an emergency travel document (sometimes known as an ‘emergency passport’) if you’re a British national outside the UK and your full validity passport has been lost, stolen, damaged or has expired.

To apply for emergency travel documents from Tenerife click the link below to book an appointment.

Emergency Travel Document (ETDs)

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Update 18th March 2020, 13:56

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has just announced that all hotels in Spain will be closed on Tuesday 24th March 2020.

 

Update 14th March 2020, 22:25

Latest from Jet2, they are concetrating on customers travelling in the next 72 hours.

Update 14th March 2020, 10:25

Jet2 has just anounced the cancellation of all flights to the Canary Islands with imediate effect

 

Read more information about the Coronavirus measures on Tenerife.

Check the status of you flight on the Tenerife airport arrivals board or the Tenerife airport departures board

 

Watch live aircraft movement on our Tenerife airport live radar

 

More heavy rain is forecast for Tenerife for the next couple of days following on from last week’s heavy downpours.

Aemet, Spain’s Met Office, have issued another yellow weather alert for today and tomorrow for heavy rain with up to 25mm precipitation in one hour .

November is one of Tenerife’s most unsettled months coming as the seasons change. Last year was very much the same and this year has drifted into December.

If the sunshine is important to you as a holiday maker, then the months to avoid on Tenerife are generally November and February as these tend to have the most unsettled weather patterns and the most rainfall.

 

Here is a video of some bad weather earlier this year in Los Cristianos where waves are crashing over the harbour walls.

 

 

A new service from Newcastle to Tenerife south started earlier this month on 6th November. This new service is being operated two times a week on a Wednesday and Saturday using Airbus A320’s with a capacity of 180 passengers per flight, and an expected 18,000 holiday makers using the new route from the north east to the popular Canary Island this winter.

Tenerife has been repeatedly requested as a route by passengers of easyJet flying from the north east. Flight prices start from £28.49 and are available to book online, booking early will get you the best prices.

The route will operate thought out the winter and will end on the 23rd April 2014. There are also three other carriers currently flying to Tenerife form Newcastle, these being Thomas Cook Airways, Thompson Airways and Jet2, making a total of twelve weekly flights to the island including this new route by easyJet.

Ali Gayward, Commercial Manager for easyJet, said: “We are pleased to launch new services to Tenerife and believe it will be a popular addition to the range of destinations currently served from Newcastle International.”

Dave Laws, chief executive of Newcastle International Airport, said: “The new service to Tenerife we are sure will be very popular with those wanting to soak up the winter sun. We’re pleased that easyJet continue to add to their destinations from Newcastle, offering our passengers a range of holiday options."

Tenerife and the other Canary Islands are about to lose UK free to air TV channels received via satellite during November 2013. The launch of the Astra 2E satellite on 30th September, after a 10 week delay to its launch, means that services currently on the Astra 1N satellite, which will be relocated, will be moved the Astra 2E satellite.

UK TV channels will only be transmitted on a UK spot beam from Astra 2E to improve reception in the UK. The loss of service affects all BBC channels, ITV, Ch4, Ch5 etc. and BBC radio stations operating on the Sky platform. We believe Sky services are unaffected as they are broadcast on the pan European beam.

The BBC has confirmed their services are moving to Astra 2E UK spot beam and will not be transmitting on the pan European beam. This loss of service will also affect the Spanish mainland.

Satellite TV is provided by several satellites a few miles apart in geo stationary orbit that are now coming to the end of their life after over 15 years of service. New satellites are being commissioned to replace this ageing satellite fleet.

Other ways of accessing free to air channels could be via the internet, but some of these services may not work with an IP address that is not from the UK.

A tapas route (Ruta de la Tapa) involves a number of participating bars, cafes and restaurants offering a tapa and a drink for about 2.50 euros. Many of these routes are organised throughout the year in various towns on Tenerife.

There is normally a booklet issued that can be collected from the participating establishments or local tourist office, containing a map showing the location of the tapas route eateries.

This booklet will also have a photo and description of the tapa on offer at each place, so you can choose the ones you like the look of. Each restaurant will offer a speciality, so they are quite different, some are traditional, and some are very modern and fancy, and some are even deserts.

You can have your booklet stamped when you visit one of the restaurants as a record of your visit, and after collecting ten stamps you can vote for your favourite tapa if you wish. The restaurant with the most votes for the best tapa wins.

These tapas routes are great fun and an excellent way to try the cuisine and alcoholic beverages of Tenerife.

 

easyJet have announced new flights to Tenerife from Southend airport with tickets going on sale from today. The service will operate twice a week on a Tuesday and Friday, with the first flight out of Southend to Tenerife south opertating on December 13th,  with one way flights starting at £33.49 just in time for the Christmas and new year holiday period.

Over 11.000 passengers a year are expected to use this new route.

This is easyJets 16th destination from Southend and is the one that has been requested the most by customers. easyJet now operate four aircraft out of Southend and the airport has just had its busiest summer with over 230,000 passengers flying out.

Hugh Aitken, easyJet's UK Commercial Manager said: “We have doubled the number of easy and affordable destinations available from London Southend since we launched at the airport in April 2012 to ensure that there really is an ideal destination for everyone whether travelling on business or for leisure, all year round.”

 

Gareth Davis from The Travel Channel was surprised what he found when visited tenerife, and discovered that there is a whole lot more to this stunning island than your average tourist realises.

There is a possibility that this weekend could be windy and rainy with thunder storms and rough seas as Tenerife feels the effect of hurricane Humberto over the next few days.

The tropical storm has been forming over the last few days and has now been ungraded to hurricane force 1. The storm is currently off the North West coast of the Cape Verde islands and south west of the Canaries.

The storm is not expected to pass directly over the Canary Islands but will be at the very edge of the hurricane.

The storm is expected to move off across the Atlantic where it will in gain strength as it moves towards Bermuda and the US.

 

Update: Humberto has now been down graded to a Post-Tropical Cyclone

 

National Huricane Centre

 

Spanish Met Office AEMET forecast

 

 

Another really nice time lapse video of the Tiede volcano and the Las Canadas caldera areas, showing how the clouds around the mountain behave just like the waves on the sea.