Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Vinaròs
A small-beach coastal town known for its dockside prawn auctions, reputedly the best langostinos in Spain.
Why people fall for Vinaròs
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the coast north of Castellón.
On the table. Langostinos reputedly the best in Spain, auctioned dockside each evening.
Worth the trip
- Small, rarely-packed beaches
- An elaborate Baroque church with a local produce market nearby
- The evening dockside fish market/auction
Fiestas
- Fiestas del Langostino, mid-August, with outdoor seafood feasts
Who it suits: Seafood lovers
Who Vinaròs 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 Vinaròs lands.
Good for
- Retiring couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 39 rainy days a year
- American retirees 98th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 39 rainy days a year
- Families with school-age kids 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 17 km from the sea · 30,516 people
- Remote-working couples 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 30,516 people · 17 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
- 11.2°C top 15% of 8,131 towns 3.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31°C bottom 38% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 39 days top 4% of 8,088 towns 43% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 bottom 14% of 8,033 towns 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,632/m² top 35% of 306 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,117 bottom 31% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.5% bottom 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10 top 6% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 69 km bottom 29% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 56 min top 31% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% top 44% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 41% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,516
- Born in Spain
- 74.5% 14.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8% 4.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.05 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 Vinaròs 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 Vinaròs against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 65 min from Castelló de la Plana/Castellón de la Plana, if that's your anchor.
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