Girona · Cataluña
Lloret de Mar
Brash, tourist-magnet resort that's everything you've heard about it — yet underneath its beach-driven commercialism and gaudy nightlife is a centuries-old town with real hidden history.
What Lloret de Mar is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
66km northeast of Barcelona.
Worth the trip
- Cala Santa Cristina, Cala Treumal and the nudist-popular Cala Boadella, quieter coves off the Blanes road
- The Cementiri Modernista, a striking 1901 cemetery with mausoleums by modernista greats, funded by Indianos returning wealthy from the Americas
- Jardins de Santa Clotilde, tranquil modernista ornamental gardens (1919) with Mediterranean views
Who it suits: Nightlife-and-beach holidaymakers · Those willing to dig past the surface for hidden history
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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,364/m² 7% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,707 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12
- Nearest international school
- 27 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 34 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 41,944
- Born in Spain
- 54.6% 34.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8.9% 5.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.86 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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