Palmas, Las · Canarias
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las
The largest city of the Canary archipelago, where two districts coexist — the old Reconquista-era town of Vegueta and the modern port agglomeration of Puerto de la Luz.
What Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Stretches nearly 6.2 miles between the Guiniguada ravine and the Isleta peninsula.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de Santa Ana, the heart of the historic center
- Catedral de Santa Ana, begun in the 16th century, completed in the 19th
- Casa de Colón, the former governors' palace where Columbus stayed in 1502
Fiestas
- Corpus Christi procession, when the square and streets are adorned with carpets of flowers, sawdust and salt
A little history
Juan Rejón founded the city in 1478 in a grove of palm trees.
Who it suits: Columbus/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
- 17.2°C 9.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 24.6°C 5.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 40 days 41% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.4 h/day 25% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,251/m² about the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,968 3% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 197
- Nearest international school
- 2 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 24 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 384,023
- Born in Spain
- 83.5% 5.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.03 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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