Tarragona · Cataluña
Salou
A former village transformed into a prestigious residential and tourist center, its main appeal being beaches ranging from vast sand stretches to small coves.
What Salou is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Sheltered by Cap Salou.
Worth the trip
- The Passeig de Jaume I, running parallel to the immense Levant Beach
A little history
Salou's first tourists, attracted by an exceptional landscape and climate, transformed the former village into a prestigious residential center.
Who it suits: Beach holidaymakers
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
- 10.4°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 48 days 31% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,555/m² 16% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,097 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 11
- Nearest international school
- 2 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
- 26 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 31,018
- Born in Spain
- 57.3% 31.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.2% 3.4% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.39 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.
How does Salou fit you?
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