Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The largest city on Tenerife, cosmopolitan and open to the sea, modernizing every day as a dynamic place to stay.
What Santa Cruz de Tenerife is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
The island's industrial and maritime hub.
Worth the trip
- The arcaded patio and wooden galleries of the 18th-century Palacio de Carta
- Iglesia de la Concepción, 16th/17th century, with carved Baroque altarpieces
- Parque García Sanabria, with 200 tropical/Mediterranean species and an International Street Sculpture Exhibition (Chirino, Miró, Moore)
- Parque Marítimo César Manrique, blending water, volcanic rock and vegetation
Who it suits: Urban explorers
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
- 19.4°C 11.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.1°C 1.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 29 days 58% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.2 h/day 13% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,335/m² 6% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,110 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 117
- Nearest international school
- 36 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 69 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 27 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 211,498
- Born in Spain
- 81.2% 7.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.32 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife fit you?
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