Major flooding hit Canary Islands after heavy rainfall on Monday, March 3. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “@Tandemvisual via Spectee”. Video Location: Güímar, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Video Recording Date/Time: March 3,

Published images show cars washed away by the floods in Gran Canaria, with its streets become raging rivers as water levels rise. Piles of mud and dirt have covered the streets as torrential rain battered the popular holiday island. The entire island of Lanzarote - the easternmost island of the archipelago - is also under a weather warning.

As the FCDO has not advised against travelling to Gran Canaria, you won’t automatically be eligible for a no-penalty refund. Instead, it’s best to contact your travel provider directly to see what can be done about cancelling or rescheduling your trip if you no longer want to travel.

Huge floods have hit one of Spain's top holiday islands, with authorities warning tourists to stay indoors as cars are swept out to sea.

The Spanish islands have been hit with a spell of flash flooding as Spanish authorities issue a red alert in Gran Canaria

During a period of heavy rain, the Canary Islands Government also advised to avoid driving and, if absolutely necessary, take extreme precautions, maintain a safe distance between vehicles, moderate speed and drive preferably on main roads or motorways, avoiding forest tracks or secondary roads.

Torrential rainfall turned streets into fast flowing rivers in parts of the popular holiday destination of Grand Canaria on Monday. The town of Telde in the east of the island was particularly hard hit with heavy downpours.

Eyewitness footage captured cars stranded on flooded streets and a vehicle being swept into the sea by rising floodwaters in Spain’s Gran Canaria on Monday (March 3). Residents in the Telde region later joined forces with emergency services to clean streets blanketed in mud.

Flash floods left cars stranded on roads in Spain. Heavy rainfall and strong winds battered the region, causing significant flooding in the provinces of Valencia and Castellon.

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