Girona · Cataluña
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
A sheltered coastal town credited with giving the 'Costa Brava' its name — supposedly coined here by a journalist gazing at the coastline from a chapel.
Why people fall for Sant Feliu de Guíxols
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
On a small bay, sheltered by the last foothills of the Serra de les Gavarres.
Worth the trip
- Cork-craft shops selling caps and decorative items
- Monestir de Sant Feliu, a 10th-century fortified Benedictine monastery with the Porta Ferrada, a pre-Romanesque portal with horseshoe arches
A little history
According to legend, it was while contemplating the seashore from the St. Elme Chapel that journalist Ferran Agulló named the coast 'Costa Brava.'
Who Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 18 km from the sea · 23,060 people
- Remote-working couples 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 23,060 people · 18 km from the sea
- Budget-first coastal settlers 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 23,060 people · 18 km from the sea
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
- €13,772 bottom 42% of 8,059 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.5% bottom 29% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9 top 7% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 25 km top 26% 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
- 20 min top 23% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2 km top 9% 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
- 40 min top 15% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 10% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 13% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 23,060
- Born in Spain
- 73.1% 15.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.4% 0.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.47 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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 41 min from Girona, if that's your anchor.
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