Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Puerto de la Cruz
An astonishing city risen from a fishing village, initiated by the English in search of sunshine at the end of the 19th century, its seafront bustling with terraces and flowered viewpoints.
What Puerto de la Cruz is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
23 miles southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, amid banana plantations on the north coast.
Worth the trip
- A seafront bustling with terraces, shops and flowered viewpoints
- The small San Telmo Hermitage (18th century)
- Pretty palm-lined beaches
A little history
Fish are no longer, as they once were, the town's primary resource; tourism, initiated by the English at the end of the 19th century, has taken over.
Who it suits: Historic seaside-resort 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
- 19.3°C 11.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.2°C 4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 34 days 51% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,036/m² 38% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,871 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 18
- 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
- 63.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 28 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 31,589
- Born in Spain
- 70.4% 18.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 14% 10.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.43 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 Puerto de la Cruz fit you?
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