Category: Islands
Islands of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores) — when to go, sea temperature month by month, and full travel guides.
Pico: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Pico Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Pico is the second-largest island in the Azores archipelago, covering approximately 447 km² and dominated by Ponta do Pico, a stratovolcano standing at 2,351 m — the highest point in Portugal. The island sits roughly 1,500 km west of mainland Lisbon, and its dramatic volcanic landscape […]
Sardinia: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Sardinia Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, covering 24,090 km² and home to 1,628,384 residents. Positioned 200 km west of mainland Italy and just 16.5 km south of Corsica, it holds some of Europe’s oldest human settlements, including the mysterious Nuraghe towers built from […]
Faial: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Faial Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Faial Island is a volcanic island in the central Azores archipelago, covering approximately 173 km² and home to around 15,000 residents, with the main town of Horta sitting at sea level on the island’s southeastern coast. The island last erupted at Capelinhos volcano in 1957–1958, an […]
Azores: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Azores Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Azores is a Portuguese archipelago of 9 islands scattered across the North Atlantic, sitting roughly 1,400 km west of Lisbon at a latitude that gives it a famously mild, year-round oceanic climate. The region’s total population is 236,440, spread across islands that rise sharply from […]
Porto Santo: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Porto Santo Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Porto Santo is a small Portuguese island of 5,149 residents sitting 43 kilometres northeast of Madeira in the North Atlantic Ocean, at an elevation reaching 402 metres above sea level at its highest point. Unlike the lush, volcanic drama of Madeira, Porto Santo is defined […]
Madeira: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Madeira Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Madeira is an autonomous Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, lying approximately 805 km southwest of mainland Portugal at a latitude similar to Casablanca. The main island’s capital, Funchal, is home to around 250,769 residents and sits beneath peaks that rise to 1,862 m at Pico […]
San Pietro Island: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
San Pietro Island Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) San Pietro Island lies roughly 7 kilometres off the south-western coast of Sardinia, covering 51 square kilometres and sitting at an elevation of 211 metres at its highest point. Its sole town, Carloforte, is home to virtually all of the island’s 6,465 residents — […]
Syros: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Syros Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Syros is the administrative capital of the Cyclades, home to 21,124 residents and sitting 78 nautical miles (144 km) south-east of Athens at a maximum elevation of 442 metres above sea level. Unlike most Cycladic islands, Syros thrives year-round as a working Greek town rather than […]
Paros: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Paros Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Paros is a Cycladic island in the central Aegean Sea, situated approximately 150 km south-east of Piraeus and just 8 km west of Naxos, with a permanent population of 13,715 residents. The island covers 196 km² and sits at elevations reaching 724 m above sea level […]
Naxos: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Naxos Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Naxos is the largest island in the Cyclades, covering approximately 429 km² and sitting at elevations reaching over 1,000 m at Mount Zas, the highest peak in the entire Cyclades archipelago. With a registered population of 17,930, it is significantly larger and more self-sufficient than its […]
Tinos: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Tinos Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Tinos is a Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea covering 194 km² with a permanent population of 8,934 (2021 census), sitting at elevations up to 729 m on its mountainous interior. The island is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the Orthodox Christian world, […]
Favignana: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Favignana Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Favignana is the largest of the three Aegadian Islands off the northwest tip of Sicily, lying just 7 km from the port of Trapani and home to a population of 4,525. The island covers roughly 19 km² and sits at 6 m above sea level, with […]