Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Castelló de la Plana
A provincial capital and one of the main cities of the Costa del Azahar, its sights centred on the Pza. Mayor.
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Why people fall for Castelló de la Plana
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa del Azahar, with beaches at its grau (port) 5km east of centre.
Worth the trip
- A fine seventeenth-century ayuntamiento and the sixteenth-century El Fadrí bell tower on Pza. Mayor
- The neo-Gothic Concatedral de Santa María
- Parque Ribalta, dedicated to local Baroque painter Francisco Ribalta
A little history
The original eleventh-century cathedral building was destroyed in the Civil War.
Who Castelló de la Plana 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 Castelló de la Plana lands.
Good for
- Retiring couples 100th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 43 rainy days a year
- American retirees 99th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 43 rainy days a year
- Families with school-age kids 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 3 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Remote-working couples 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 3 km from the sea · 183,709 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 3 km from the sea · a hospital in town
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
- 12.3°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 4.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.6°C bottom 49% of 8,131 towns 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 43 days top 7% of 8,088 towns 37% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day top 16% of 3,829 towns 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 bottom 14% of 8,033 towns 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,527/m² top 26% of 306 towns 31% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,696 top 44% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.4% bottom 16% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 102 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 1 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 32 min top 8% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 11% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 11% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 183,709
- Born in Spain
- 75.3% 13.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8.6% 4.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.3 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 Castelló de la Plana 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 Castelló de la Plana against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 22 min from Vila-real, if that's your anchor.
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