Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Puerto de la Cruz
An astonishing city risen from a fishing village, initiated by the English in search of sunshine at the end of the 19th century, its seafront bustling with terraces and flowered viewpoints.
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Why people fall for Puerto de la Cruz
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
23 miles southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, amid banana plantations on the north coast.
Worth the trip
- A seafront bustling with terraces, shops and flowered viewpoints
- The small San Telmo Hermitage (18th century)
- Pretty palm-lined beaches
A little history
Fish are no longer, as they once were, the town's primary resource; tourism, initiated by the English at the end of the 19th century, has taken over.
Who it suits: Historic seaside-resort travellers
Who Puerto de la Cruz 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 Puerto de la Cruz lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 31,589 people · 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
- 19.3°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 11.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.2°C top 11% of 8,131 towns 4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 34 days top 3% of 8,088 towns 51% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,036/m² bottom 18% of 306 towns 38% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,871 bottom 43% of 8,059 towns 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.4% top 21% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 18 top 3% 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
- 63.6 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
- 28 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 13% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 22% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 31,589
- Born in Spain
- 70.4% 18.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 14% 10.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.43 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 Puerto de la Cruz 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 Puerto de la Cruz against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 30 min from San Cristóbal de La Laguna, if that's your anchor.
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