Canary Islands bananas: €2.88 per kilo on the mainland

What do Canary bananas cost in the shops now?

Retailers charge an average of €2.88 per kilo for Canary bananas, the highest figure of 2026. The number comes from an analysis of weekly data from the MAPA, Spain’s agriculture ministry.

That price is for shops on the Spanish mainland and the Balearic Islands, which take almost all of the crop. For supermarkets on the islands, including the southern resort areas, the report gives no price.

Whether kilo prices will rise at island tills, and when, the report does not say. Anyone who buys bananas often should simply compare the price tags.

Overseas bananas are cheaper on the mainland, by up to €1.50 per kilo on average. The report calls that gap normal there, but it does not automatically apply to the islands.

October 2025 offers one comparison value: €2.55 per kilo in retail. It comes from a different series of measurements, so an exact price jump cannot be calculated.

What do the growers get for their bananas?

Growers got an average of €1.17 per kilo in week 43, from 19 to 25 October 2026, according to the MAPA. It is the best figure of the year, for first-quality fruit that is green, sold wholesale and bound for the peninsula.

At the low in week 37, from 7 to 13 September, the market paid only €0.32 per kilo. That was the year’s lowest figure and below anything seen in 2025, so growers sold at a loss for more than two months.

From the market alone, growers made at least €0.27 per kilo, if the report’s growing costs of €0.80 to €0.90 per kilo hold. Those costs are still waiting for a check.

Growers who can harvest in autumn keep around 60 cents per kilo before tax, the report calculates. That includes the EU’s Posei aid, its programme for remote regions, which now adds €0.32 per kilo.

Why does the banana price swing so much?

In summer 2026 the picture was reversed: in week 30, from 20 to 27 July, growers got only €0.36 per kilo, MAPA data show. That is below the worst figure of 2025, which was €0.40 per kilo.

The report’s cost figures do not agree: €0.70 to €0.80 per kilo in the summer report, €0.80 to €0.90 in the November one. The growers’ association ASPROCAN has not explained the gap.

In 2025 the marketed volume fell to around 374.6 million kilos, according to the ASPROCAN market report. That is about 12% less and the lowest level since at least 2015.

In spring 2025 the price in some supermarkets already passed three euros per kilo. Wind and weather-related losses are named as the cause.

Who supports the growers, and where does the harvest go?

Posei is the EU’s programme for outermost regions, and it backs banana growers. Of the 268.5 million euros earmarked for the Canary Islands, 141.1 million euros go specifically to bananas.

For 2025 to 2027, the direct aid is around €0.32 per kilo, with a ceiling of €0.3359 if the whole budget is used. Growers who farm in the open air get a further €1,200 per hectare a year, for up to 7,600 hectares.

Most of the 2025 harvest, 87% or 329.1 million kilos, went to the peninsula, according to the market figures. The Canary Islands themselves took 40.3 million kilos, and 5.2 million went abroad, 3.6 million of them to Morocco.

The rest of Europe received 1.6 million kilos, of which Switzerland took 1.1 million. The report gives no figure for Germany or Austria.

What happens to the banana price next?

In week 44, from 26 October to 1 November, the sector sent 6.7 million kilos to the peninsula. For the first week of November the report expects 6.4 million kilos.

Bonaoro, the marketer of the growers’ group Unión Platanera Canaria, sees the market “still in a good moment”, but now in a phase of stability. The report itself says the good trade applies only to growers with a harvest, and only for now.

On 9 October 2026, the Canary Islands agriculture consejero (regional minister), Narvay Quintero, met the six producer organisations. According to the announcement, the aim is better harvest planning to ease price tension.

ASPROCAN calls for the Posei quotas to be adjusted, saying they have not been updated since 2006. The sources named no decision date and no price forecast for winter.