Girona · Cataluña
Cadaqués
The quintessential Costa Brava coastal village — rocky beaches, whitewashed buildings and bougainvillea-draped cobbled streets — long a favourite retreat of artists, above all Salvador Dalí.
What Cadaqués is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
Just outside Cap de Creus Natural Park.
On the table. Plentiful gastronomic opportunities.
Worth the trip
- Salvador Dalí's retirement villa, now a museum bringing his eccentricity to life
- Coastal trails and rocky coves reachable by kayak
A little history
Long a favourite holiday retreat for artists and celebrities, above all its former long-term resident Salvador Dalí.
Who it suits: Art pilgrims · Coastal-village seekers
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
- 10.2°C 2.4°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
- 59 days 15% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,597 8% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 50 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 38 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 81 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,906
- Born in Spain
- 64.2% 24.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 9.2% 5.3% 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 Cadaqués fit you?
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