Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The largest city on Tenerife, cosmopolitan and open to the sea, modernizing every day as a dynamic place to stay.
Why people fall for Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
The island's industrial and maritime hub.
Worth the trip
- The arcaded patio and wooden galleries of the 18th-century Palacio de Carta
- Iglesia de la Concepción, 16th/17th century, with carved Baroque altarpieces
- Parque García Sanabria, with 200 tropical/Mediterranean species and an International Street Sculpture Exhibition (Chirino, Miró, Moore)
- Parque Marítimo César Manrique, blending water, volcanic rock and vegetation
Who it suits: Urban explorers
Who Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 6 km from the sea · 211,498 people
- Retiring couples 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 19.4°C average winters
- Families with school-age kids 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 6 km from the sea · 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
- 19.4°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 11.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.1°C top 34% of 8,131 towns 1.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 29 days top 1% of 8,088 towns 58% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.2 h/day top 9% of 3,829 towns 13% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,335/m² bottom 40% of 306 towns 6% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,110 top 39% of 8,059 towns 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.4% top 41% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 117 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 36 km top 39% 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
- 69 km bottom 3% 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
- 27 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 19% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 26% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 211,498
- Born in Spain
- 81.2% 7.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.32 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 31 min from San Cristóbal de La Laguna, if that's your anchor.
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