Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Castelló de la Plana
A provincial capital and one of the main cities of the Costa del Azahar, its sights centred on the Pza. Mayor.
What Castelló de la Plana is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa del Azahar, with beaches at its grau (port) 5km east of centre.
Worth the trip
- A fine seventeenth-century ayuntamiento and the sixteenth-century El Fadrí bell tower on Pza. Mayor
- The neo-Gothic Concatedral de Santa María
- Parque Ribalta, dedicated to local Baroque painter Francisco Ribalta
A little history
The original eleventh-century cathedral building was destroyed in the Civil War.
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
- 12.3°C 4.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.6°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 43 days 37% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,527/m² 31% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,696 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.4%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 42.5 per 1,000 3% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 102
- Nearest international school
- 1 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 32 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 183,709
- Born in Spain
- 75.3% 13.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8.6% 4.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.3 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.
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