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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -13.8417,Lat: 28.8647
Elevation	300 meter above sea level
Local time	18:18:59pm
At island	Lanzarote
Name province/region	Canarias
Name Subregion	Las Palmas
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Yaiza

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 San Marcial de Rubicon	1.2 km	EastSouthEast
2 Montaña Roja	1.8 km	West
3 Plan Parcial Playa Blanca	1.9 km	EastSouthEast
4 Costa de Papagayo	1.9 km	East
5 Castillo del Águila	3.6 km	EastSouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1112 km	EastNorthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	1154 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1553 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

Playa Blanca lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction WestSouthWest). The nearest bigger lake is Laguna de Janubio (0.6 km² at a distance of 7.2 km in NorthNorthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Guardilama with a height of 603 meter (at a distance of 16.4 km and direction EastNorthEast).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Lanzarote (Fissure vent) at a distance of 26.9 km (direction EastNorthEast). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1075.6 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1506 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 3%, low location: 97%, hill: 0%, The hills are mainly southwestern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is nature.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (at a distance of 25 km and direction East).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Hassan I Airport (at a distance of 200 km in Southern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Nature

22.2 km2

55.7%

Urban area

17 km2

42.8%

Rock-Sand

0.6 km2

1.5%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Playa Blanca in country Spain

Playa Blanca at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape	Spain	197 km	West
2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	246 km	West
3 Teide National Park	Spain	282 km	West

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Espacio marino de La Bocayna	ES	0.6 km	WestSouthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Playa Blanca

Type of weather in Playa Blanca	scattered clouds
Current temperature:	24 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	7.06 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	North North East
Air pressure:	1014 mb
Humidity:	78 %
Daylength at 6 May 2024:	13 hour and 24 minutes
Sunrise :	08:09 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:33 Europe/Amsterdam