Arona Fish Market

The market keeps the same hours six days a week: 9am to 2pm, Monday to Saturday, with Sunday the only closed day. That is a morning market in practice, so an afternoon visit finds the doors shut.

It trades indoors under cover, which matters in the south of the island in summer, and the building is wheelchair accessible. Stalls take cash and credit cards, so you do not have to plan around finding a cash machine first.

The market is known in Spanish as Mercado de Pescado, which is the name you will see on signs and on local directions.

Fish and seafood are the whole of this market. It is a single-trade hall rather than a general food market, so it is somewhere you go for a specific errand: the counter for the evening's fish, not a stall of fruit and a stall of cheese alongside it. If you want a broader shop, the street markets in Arona cover the wider mix.

Because it opens six mornings a week rather than on one market day, it works as a regular fishmonger rather than an event. There is no need to plan a trip around a particular weekday.

Arona's fish market sits in the south of Tenerife, so staying nearby in Los Cristianos or Las Americas puts you within easy reach and keeps you close to the coast. Both areas have plenty of accommodation options at different price points, and you can walk or take a short taxi to the market without any fuss.

If you want something a bit more comfortable, Hotel Arona Gran Hotel is a solid choice that gives you good access to the local area without straying too far from where you need to be.

The address is Rambla Dionisio González, 24, 38631 Arona, in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province. Arriving inside the 9am to 2pm window is the whole of the planning, since the market does not reopen later in the day.

Access is step-free, so a wheelchair or a pushchair is workable. For the wider picture of what else is trading nearby on a given day, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province page lists every market in the province, and you can check the markets calendar to confirm operating days.