Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Canarias
Orotava, La
Staggered on a mountainside overlooking its namesake fertile valley, with an old quarter of noble houses and some of the most stunning wooden balconies in the Canary Islands.
What Orotava, La is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
4.3 miles from Puerto de la Cruz.
Worth the trip
- The Casa de Los Balcones, with splendid wood-carved balconies
- Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava, an 18th-century botanical garden with an extraordinary profusion of tree and flower species
- The starting point for one of the four access roads to Mount Teide
Who it suits: Botanical garden visitors · Teide-bound 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
- 5.8°C 2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.8°C 7.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 30 days 56% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 10 h/day 38% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,772/m² 20% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,366 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 26
- Nearest international school
- 10 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 447 34 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 61.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 106 days about the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 41 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 85% 6% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% 6% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 42,669
- Born in Spain
- 87.7% 1.1% 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
- 0.89 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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