Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Orotava, La
Staggered on a mountainside overlooking its namesake fertile valley, with an old quarter of noble houses and some of the most stunning wooden balconies in the Canary Islands.
Why people fall for Orotava, La
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
4.3 miles from Puerto de la Cruz.
Worth the trip
- The Casa de Los Balcones, with splendid wood-carved balconies
- Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava, an 18th-century botanical garden with an extraordinary profusion of tree and flower species
- The starting point for one of the four access roads to Mount Teide
Who it suits: Botanical garden visitors · Teide-bound travellers
Who Orotava, La 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 Orotava, La lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 42,669 people · a hospital in town
- Heat-averse settlers 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 32 km from the sea · mild 22.8°C summer highs
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
- 5.8°C bottom 26% of 8,131 towns 2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.8°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 7.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 30 days top 1% of 8,088 towns 56% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 10 h/day top 1% of 3,829 towns 38% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,772/m² top 42% of 306 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,366 bottom 22% of 8,059 towns 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.9% top 19% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 26 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 10 km top 8% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 #17 of 17 regions, −32 vs national 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 61.1 km bottom 4% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days #12 of 17 regions, +3 days vs national about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 41 min top 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 85% bottom 37% of 8,132 towns 6% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% bottom 37% of 8,132 towns 6% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 42,669
- Born in Spain
- 87.7% 1.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.3% 0.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.89 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 Orotava, La 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 Orotava, La against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 48 min from San Cristóbal de La Laguna, if that's your anchor.
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