Girona · Cataluña
Roses
A site inhabited for over three thousand years, since Greek traders called it Rhoda — but today a full-blown package resort trading on its 4km sandy beach.
What Roses is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
At the head of a grand, sweeping bay.
Worth the trip
- A Renaissance-style sixteenth-century citadel built by order of Charles V, with the ornamental Porta de Mar
- The Museu de la Ciutadella, exploring the site's Greek and Roman remains
- 4km of sandy beach with a large watersports industry
A little history
The Greeks called the place Rhoda when they set up a trading colony around the natural harbour in the ninth century BC.
Who it suits: Package-resort beachgoers · Watersports enthusiasts
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
- 10.2°C 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31°C 0.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 59 days 15% 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
- €13,152 9% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9
- Nearest international school
- 44 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 27 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 69 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
- 20,175
- Born in Spain
- 63.5% 25.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 9.6% 5.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.54 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 Roses fit you?
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