Tarragona · Cataluña
Deltebre
A large town on the north bank of the Ebro that subsists mainly from fishing, oyster farming, and rice cultivation.
What Deltebre is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
On the north bank of the Ebro Delta.
On the table. Fishing, oyster farming and rice cultivation.
Worth the trip
- The Natural Park Ecomuseum, on the delta's habitat and ways of life
Who it suits: Delta wildlife/cycling 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
- 11.7°C 3.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 49 days 29% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.6 h/day 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 534 478 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,799 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 52 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 23 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 75 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 53% 26% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 88% 4% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 12,074
- Born in Spain
- 85.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.4% 0.6% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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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