Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Candelaria
A pretty town with colorful houses, home to the Basílica of Our Lady of Candelaria, patroness of the Canary Islands.
What Candelaria is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
40 miles from the Mirador de la Centinela.
On the table. Miles of black sand beach where one can enjoy fresh fish.
Worth the trip
- The Basílica of Our Lady of Candelaria, patroness of the Canary Islands since the 16th century
- Monumental bronze statues of the Menceyes Guanches, the 9 kings who shared the island before Europeans arrived
Fiestas
- 15 August, when the richly adorned statue of the Virgin is carried in procession through town
Who it suits: Religious 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
- 14.4°C 6.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.2°C 5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 62 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.4 h/day 12% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,832/m² 28% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,334 6% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12
- Nearest international school
- 16 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 28 min
- Nearest health centre
- 74.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 27 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% 10% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 29,240
- Born in Spain
- 83.6% 5.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.33 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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