Girona · Cataluña
Castellfollit de la Roca
A dramatic village perched atop a 197-foot basaltic cliff in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone.
What Castellfollit de la Roca is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Within the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.
Worth the trip
- Its perch on the 197-foot-high basaltic flow
- The Church of Sant Salvador in the old town centre
Who it suits: Scenic-drive travellers
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
- 5.4°C 2.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days 14% more 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
- 19.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 36 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 10 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 960
- Born in Spain
- 84.6% 4.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.3% 0.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.13 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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