Tarragona · Cataluña
Vendrell, El
An inland town that includes three major seaside districts, birthplace of cellist Pau Casals.
What Vendrell, El is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Includes the seaside districts Sant Salvador, Coma-ruga and El Francás.
Worth the trip
- The Museu Deu, with figurative paintings, religious sculptures and Modernist crystal pieces
- Casa natal de Pau Casals and Casa-Museu de Àngel Guimerà
Who it suits: Music/literary pilgrims
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 estimated
- 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
- €1,921/m² 13% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,013 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 67.9 per 1,000 54% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 17
- Nearest international school
- 17 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 39 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 41,195
- Born in Spain
- 76.5% 12.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.3% 0.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.9 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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