Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Adeje
A village off the main road, gateway to a strange crevice site in a magnificent setting.
What Adeje is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
14 miles from Los Gigantes.
Worth the trip
- Barranco del Infierno, an immense crevice reached by a 1.2-mile walk from the village
Who it suits: Hikers
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
- 19.7°C 11.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.3°C 1.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 14 days 80% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.9 h/day 9% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,728/m² 69% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,060 17% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 17
- Nearest international school
- 9 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 38.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 33 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 50,612
- Born in Spain
- 43.5% 45.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 28.9% 25.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.72 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 Adeje fit you?
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