Girona · Cataluña
Pals
A fortified medieval village long neglected then painstakingly restored, its golden-brown buildings clustering around a stark Romanesque castle tower.
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Why people fall for Pals
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
7km north of Palafrugell, 7km from Begur.
Worth the trip
- Fourteenth-century streets and hilltop setting
- A Gothic church, Església de Sant Pere, and the Romanesque Torre de les Hores
A little history
Long neglected until it was painstakingly restored by a local doctor after the Civil War.
Who Pals 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 Pals lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Budget-first coastal settlers 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · 2,552 people
- Families with school-age kids 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · a real food scene
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
- 9.9°C top 24% of 8,131 towns 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C top 49% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days top 48% of 8,088 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- 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
- €17,555 top 12% of 8,059 towns 21% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.2% top 26% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 27 km top 28% 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
- 19 min top 20% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 7.1 km top 37% 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
- 63 min top 39% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% bottom 44% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% bottom 48% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,552
- Born in Spain
- 71.6% 17.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.5% 6.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.96 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 Pals 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 Pals against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 50 min from Girona, if that's your anchor.
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