Tarragona · Cataluña
Altafulla
A reasonable stop with an old town holding a 400-year-old castle and an important Roman villa nearby.
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Why people fall for Altafulla
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- A 400-year-old privately owned castle
- The Baroque Església Parroquial de Sant Martí, completed 1705
- Vil·la Romana dels Munts, with exceptional Roman mosaics and thermal baths
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers
Who Altafulla is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Altafulla lands.
Good for
- American retirees 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 15 min to a hospital · a health centre close by
- Budget-first coastal settlers 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 5,856 people
- Retiring couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 15 min to a hospital · a health centre close by
- Families with school-age kids 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 15 min to a hospital
- Remote-working couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 5,856 people
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 10.4°C top 19% of 8,131 towns 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C top 45% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 48 days top 13% of 8,088 towns 31% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day bottom 47% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 bottom 31% of 8,033 towns 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,943 top 5% of 8,059 towns 31% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4% bottom 35% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5 top 12% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 5 km top 3% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 15 min top 13% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km top 7% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days #16 of 17 regions, +39 days vs national 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 29 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 9% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 12% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,856
- Born in Spain
- 83.6% 5.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.7% 0.9% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.07 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Altafulla fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Altafulla against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 15 min from Tarragona, if that's your anchor.
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