Tarragona · Cataluña
Montblanc
A walled medieval town, surprisingly beautiful to discover in the middle of nowhere, where St George is said to have slain the dragon.
What Montblanc is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
8km before the turning to the Poblet monastery.
Worth the trip
- The Torre-portal de Bové, the medieval gateway
- Santa Maria la Major, a grand Gothic parish church with an elaborate lion-faced facade
Fiestas
- A fiesta on April 23 commemorating St George slaying the dragon
Who it suits: Medieval-architecture 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
- 12°C 4.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.7°C 0.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 50 days 27% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.6 h/day 5% more 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
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,054 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 23 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 13 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 36 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 91% 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 7,568
- Born in Spain
- 83.1% 5.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.8% about the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.53 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 Montblanc fit you?
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