Girona · Cataluña
Figueres
Forever linked with its most famous son Salvador Dalí, whose genius still haunts the streets — one of the most dynamic tourist spots in Catalonia.
What Figueres is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
In the Empordà hinterland, 21 miles west of Cadaqués.
Worth the trip
- Teatre-Museu Dalí, the former municipal theatre Dalí adapted himself in 1968, with a Mae West room and a glass geodesic dome
- Castell de Sant Ferran, a pentagon-shaped 18th-century fortress, one of the largest in Europe at 79 acres
- Museu del Joguet, one of Europe's most important toy museums
A little history
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), born in Figueres to a wealthy family, became one of the world's most famous Surrealist painters.
Who it suits: Dalí/art 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
- 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
- €1,494/m² 32% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,566 13% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 29
- Nearest international school
- 34 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 52 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 49,556
- Born in Spain
- 62.9% 25.9% 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
- 0.5 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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