Girona · Cataluña
Tossa de Mar
Quite a sight arriving by boat — medieval walls and turrets shimmer above the modern town — balancing comfortably between a restful holiday hub and a working town, unlike its more overrun neighbour Lloret.
Why people fall for Tossa de Mar
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
13km north of Lloret de Mar.
Worth the trip
- Vila Vella, the twelfth-century-walled old quarter, a maze of cobbled streets and whitewashed houses
- Platja de la Mar Menuda, popular with divers, with a natural pink cross marking a 1235 legend
- A nineteenth-century lighthouse and a statue of Ava Gardner, who filmed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman here in 1950
A little history
Founded originally by the Romans; Ava Gardner made the town famous in the 1950 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.
Who it suits: Divers · Film buffs
Who Tossa de Mar 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 Tossa de Mar lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 6,293 people
- Families with school-age kids 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 6,293 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 6,293 people
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
- 8.8°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C bottom 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days bottom 46% of 8,088 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day bottom 22% of 3,829 towns 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- 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
- €14,852 top 42% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.5% bottom 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 26 km top 27% 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
- 22 min top 25% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 7.4 km top 39% 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
- 97% top 18% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 15% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,293
- Born in Spain
- 66.7% 22.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.2% 3.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.54 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 Tossa de Mar 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 Tossa de Mar against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Girona, if that's your anchor.
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