Girona · Cataluña
Blanes
A major Costa Brava tourist centre with two celebrated botanical gardens and a scenic seafront promenade between a castle ruin and a sandbank.
What Blanes is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
On the Costa Brava.
Worth the trip
- The Passeig Marítim, a promenade between the tip of Santa Anna and the Sa Palomera sandbank
- Jardi Botànic Marimurtra, an over 3,000-species botanical garden created in 1921
- Jardi Botànic Pinya de Rosa, the largest cactus garden in the world (created 1945, 7,000+ varieties)
Who it suits: Garden lovers
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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,068/m² 6% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,075 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 49.5 per 1,000 13% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 19
- Nearest international school
- 31 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 40 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 42,446
- Born in Spain
- 74.2% 14.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.01 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 Blanes fit you?
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