Tarragona · Cataluña
Valls
An open and prosperous city nestled between two torrents, its three assets being folklore, shops and culinary specialties.
What Valls is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
10 miles south of Montblanc, in rugged terrain among mountain chains and valleys.
On the table. Culinary specialties among its three assets, alongside folklore and shops.
Worth the trip
- An old quarter that has retained its medieval character
- A theatre built in 1884
Who it suits: Folklore/culture 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
- 10.4°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 48 days 31% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day about 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
- €14,607 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 57.8 per 1,000 31% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 16
- Nearest international school
- 16 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 27 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 93% 14% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% 10% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 25,540
- Born in Spain
- 77.6% 11.2% 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
- 0.27 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 Valls fit you?
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