Girona · Cataluña
Tossa de Mar
Quite a sight arriving by boat — medieval walls and turrets shimmer above the modern town — balancing comfortably between a restful holiday hub and a working town, unlike its more overrun neighbour Lloret.
What Tossa de Mar is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
13km north of Lloret de Mar.
Worth the trip
- Vila Vella, the twelfth-century-walled old quarter, a maze of cobbled streets and whitewashed houses
- Platja de la Mar Menuda, popular with divers, with a natural pink cross marking a 1235 legend
- A nineteenth-century lighthouse and a statue of Ava Gardner, who filmed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman here in 1950
A little history
Founded originally by the Romans; Ava Gardner made the town famous in the 1950 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.
Who it suits: Divers · Film buffs
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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,852 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 60.4 per 1,000 37% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 26 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 22 min
- Nearest health centre
- 7.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 40 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,293
- Born in Spain
- 66.7% 22.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.2% 3.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.54 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.
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