Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Vinaròs
A small-beach coastal town known for its dockside prawn auctions, reputedly the best langostinos in Spain.
What Vinaròs is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the coast north of Castellón.
On the table. Langostinos reputedly the best in Spain, auctioned dockside each evening.
Worth the trip
- Small, rarely-packed beaches
- An elaborate Baroque church with a local produce market nearby
- The evening dockside fish market/auction
Fiestas
- Fiestas del Langostino, mid-August, with outdoor seafood feasts
Who it suits: Seafood lovers
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
- 11.2°C 3.4°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
- 39 days 43% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,632/m² 26% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,117 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10
- Nearest international school
- 69 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 56 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,516
- Born in Spain
- 74.5% 14.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8% 4.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.05 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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