Tarragona · Cataluña
Altafulla
A reasonable stop with an old town holding a 400-year-old castle and an important Roman villa nearby.
What Altafulla is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- A 400-year-old privately owned castle
- The Baroque Església Parroquial de Sant Martí, completed 1705
- Vil·la Romana dels Munts, with exceptional Roman mosaics and thermal baths
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 10.4°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 48 days 31% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,943 31% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 51.7 per 1,000 18% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 15 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 29 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,856
- Born in Spain
- 83.6% 5.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.7% 0.9% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.07 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Altafulla fit you?
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