What applies on Fuerteventura’s beaches on Wednesday?
AEMET has issued an orange wind warning for Fuerteventura on Wednesday 11 November. It runs from 06:00 to 20:59 and forecasts gusts of up to 90 km/h.
AEMET puts the probability at 40 to 70%, and the whole island is affected. The wind is strongest on the northern and north-western slopes.
The Canary government’s emergency authority (Dirección General de Emergencias) expects the strongest gusts overnight and in the first hours of Wednesday. Anyone heading to the beach early will meet the worst of the wind.
The sea joins in during the afternoon, as AEMET has issued a yellow coastal warning from 12:00 to 20:59. It expects north-westerly swell of 3 to 4 metres, south-westerly wind of 50 to 61 km/h (force 7) and a high tidal coefficient.
The report names no closures and no bans for beachgoers or surfers. The emergency authority urges extra care on south-west-facing coasts and in exposed harbour areas, especially at high tide.
The western sectors count as especially exposed in this coastal situation. The information available does not say whether individual beaches in the southern resort areas are affected.
When and where could rain bring flooding?
AEMET has issued a yellow rain warning for Wednesday from 15:00 to 23:59. It expects up to 15 millimetres in one hour, with a probability of 40 to 70%.
The Canary government has also declared a pre-alert (Prealerta) for rain, starting at 03:00 on Wednesday. A pre-alert for flooding covers the whole archipelago from 00:00.
The authority lists three risks: waves breaking over the shoreline, standing water after rain, and runoff and flooding in ravines (barrancos). It named no specific places for Fuerteventura.
What do pre-alert, alert and orange warning mean?
The regional emergency plan PEFMA was adopted in 2014 by Decreto 18/2014 (BOC 2014/070, the Canary Islands official gazette). It has three levels: Prealerta, Alerta and Alerta máxima, which the Canary government declares and the Dirección General de Emergencias publishes.
The colour warnings of yellow, orange and red come from AEMET and form a separate system. A pre-alert can apply below the AEMET thresholds, even when the impact is very slight.
On Wednesday both systems apply to Fuerteventura at once. Wind and coastal phenomena have been on alert since Tuesday 10 November at 18:00, while rain and flooding are on pre-alert.
Ports are closed not by the Canary government but by Puertos del Estado, the state port authority. On 13 November 2025 it temporarily closed the port of Puerto del Rosario as a precaution.
How does Fuerteventura compare with the other islands?
From 00:00 on Wednesday, La Palma and the summit areas of Tenerife are on the highest wind level (Alerta máxima). The forecast gives gusts of up to 140 km/h on La Palma and over 130 km/h on the Tenerife summits.
The rest of Tenerife, El Hierro, La Gomera, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Graciosa have been on alert since Tuesday at 18:00, like Fuerteventura. The coastal situation affects the whole archipelago.
For rain, only La Palma is on alert, with up to 30 millimetres an hour and 60 millimetres in twelve hours. Fuerteventura stays on pre-alert like the other islands, with 15 millimetres an hour expected.
A pre-warning for landslides has applied since Tuesday at 18:00 to La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Fuerteventura is not on that list.
What is still unclear, and what happens next?
No information on closures, school cancellations, or flight and ferry services was available on Tuesday. Measures by the Cabildo (island government) or the municipalities for Wednesday are also unknown.
On 6 November the Canary government had already issued a pre-alert for Fuerteventura from Saturday 7 November, as the Cabildo reported. It named waves of 3 to 4 metres from Monday 9 November, but the sources do not say whether Wednesday’s warnings continue that spell or mark a new one.
The AEMET beach forecast for Corralejo shows weak swell for Wednesday. That contradicts the 3 to 4 metres in the coastal warning, whose figures are the ones that count.
For comparison, during storm Claudia on 12 and 13 November 2025, the emergency coordination centre CECOES logged 17 call-outs on Fuerteventura and 345 across the archipelago. According to the summary, none was serious.
The emergency authority will keep watching the weather and adjust its declarations if needed. The AEMET beach forecast shows weak wind for Thursday 12 November, but that is only a forecast.