Palmas, Las · Canarias
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las
The largest city of the Canary archipelago, where two districts coexist — the old Reconquista-era town of Vegueta and the modern port agglomeration of Puerto de la Luz.
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Why people fall for Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Stretches nearly 6.2 miles between the Guiniguada ravine and the Isleta peninsula.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de Santa Ana, the heart of the historic center
- Catedral de Santa Ana, begun in the 16th century, completed in the 19th
- Casa de Colón, the former governors' palace where Columbus stayed in 1502
Fiestas
- Corpus Christi procession, when the square and streets are adorned with carpets of flowers, sawdust and salt
A little history
Juan Rejón founded the city in 1478 in a grove of palm trees.
Who it suits: Columbus/history travellers
Who Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las 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 Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · 384,023 people
- Retiring couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 17.2°C average winters
- Families with school-age kids 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Budget-first coastal settlers 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 17.2°C average winters
- Heat-averse settlers 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · mild 24.6°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
- 17.2°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 9.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 24.6°C top 6% of 8,131 towns 5.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 40 days top 4% of 8,088 towns 41% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.4 h/day bottom 6% of 3,829 towns 25% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,251/m² bottom 42% of 306 towns about the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,968 top 41% of 8,059 towns 3% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.7% bottom 48% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 197 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 2 km top 1% 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
- 1.2 km top 5% 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
- 24 min top 4% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 12% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 17% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 384,023
- Born in Spain
- 83.5% 5.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.03 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 Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las 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 Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 23 min from Telde, if that's your anchor.
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