Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Icod de los Vinos
A wine-growing-region town dating from the beginning of the conquest, its pride the most imposing and oldest dragon tree of the archipelago. Michelin rates it notable (1 star).
What Icod de los Vinos is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
13.7 miles from Puerto de la Cruz, in a wine-growing region.
On the table. A wine-growing region.
Worth the trip
- The oldest dragon tree of the archipelago, believed to be 800-1,000 years old, in the Parque del Drago
- The Church of San Marcos, with a Sacred Art Museum holding a huge filigree silver cross made in Cuba
- A second, ~500-year-old dragon tree on Calle San Francisco
Who it suits: Botanical/nature 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
- 19.3°C 11.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.2°C 4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 34 days 51% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,084 24% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 18
- Nearest international school
- 15 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 47 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 85 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 82% 3% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 88% 5% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 24,675
- Born in Spain
- 80% 8.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.4% 1.5% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.42 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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