Girona · Cataluña
Palafrugell
Tranquil, pine-covered slopes back three of the most alluring villages on the Costa Brava — Calella, Llafranc and Tamariu — each with scintillating turquoise waters.
What Palafrugell is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa Brava, with no true coastal road, keeping development generally mild.
Worth the trip
- Calella, Llafranc and Tamariu, each with a distinct character
- Low-rise, whitewashed apartments and hotels rather than high-density development
Who it suits: Well-off Barcelonans with weekend/August villas · Travellers wanting Costa Brava without high-rise development
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
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,607 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 65.8 per 1,000 50% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13
- Nearest international school
- 28 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 11 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 56 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 24,556
- Born in Spain
- 69.7% 19.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.2% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.81 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 Palafrugell fit you?
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