Puerto de la Cruz is a municipality on the north coast of Tenerife, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The most useful thing to say first is what this page cannot carry: we have not been able to establish AEMET's published climate normals for the station AEMET itself names Puerto de la Cruz, and no source we hold settles a reference hospital for the town, so we name none.
INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion counted 31,589 residents at 1 January 2025, and that is the operation this page uses throughout. Within the same count 6,652 held a foreign nationality, just over a fifth, and 9,338 were born outside Spain, close to three in ten. Both foreign totals are ours, derived by subtracting INE's published Spanish figures. On the nationality basis German and Italian are the largest country rows, ahead of British and Venezuelan.
Idealista's July 2026 report prices the municipality and all five of the districts it lists here, complete coverage of that source at that tier. These are asking prices, in Idealista's own words the offer price rather than the final transaction price. The spread inside one small town is wide, and of the five districts only San Fernando is lower than a year earlier. The tram that runs on this island does not serve this town.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
Idealista prices every district it lists here
In the July 2026 report the municipality carries an asking price and so does each of the five districts listed for it, from Distrito Botánico and Distrito Martiánez to San Fernando. That is complete coverage of that source at district level.
Real price variation inside one small town
Distrito Martiánez, the dearest district Idealista prices in July 2026, asks close to half as much again per square metre as Distrito San Antonio - Las Arenas, the cheapest of the five. A buyer can trade location against price without leaving the municipality.
Close to three in ten residents born abroad
INE's Censo Anual at 1 January 2025 gives 31,589 residents, of whom 9,338 were born outside Spain on our subtraction from INE's published Spanish figure. That is close to three in ten, though residents are not buyers and nothing in our sources counts purchasers.
German and Italian lead the origin list
On the nationality basis in the same census, INE publishes 1,435 German nationals and 1,187 Italian, ahead of 396 British and 387 Venezuelan. This is nationality, not birthplace, and dual nationals holding Spanish nationality are recorded as Spanish.
Two Aena airports on the same island
Aena's release of 13 January 2026 reports 13,969,678 passenger movements at Tenerife Sur across 2025 and 7,174,977 at Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna. Norte is the smaller of the two. Both are airports Aena reports on this island; we publish no distances from this town.
We could not establish the climate normals
AEMET has a station printed as Puerto de la Cruz, and it appears in the observation service. Requests for its normals returned a Lanzarote station instead, a caching fault. We have not been able to establish them, which is not evidence that none are published.
A reference hospital we cannot name, map answer wrong
Hospital del Norte de Tenerife in Icod de los Vinos looks obvious on a map, but its own catchment statement names six municipalities and Puerto de la Cruz is not one of them. We name a reference hospital or nothing, so this page names nothing.
The island's tram does not come here
Metropolitano de Tenerife runs two lines between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and that metropolitan area is where the service ends. The separate Tenerife train project is not built and we publish no date for it.
No ferry port inside the municipality
None of the routes in our sources names a port in Puerto de la Cruz. The Tenerife ports that Armas Trasmediterranea and Fred. Olsen Express list are S.C. de Tenerife and Los Cristianos, both in other municipalities. We publish no distances or journey times.
Two official counts disagree on the population
INE's Censo Anual gives 31,589 and its padron gives 31,137, both at 1 January 2025, 452 people apart. It is the widest relative gap of the three Canary municipalities we checked, and nothing reconciles the two.
Editor's note
Two of the things a buyer most wants settled are open on this page, and we would rather say so than fill them. If you need to know today which hospital covers an address here, or what the published climate normals are, this guide cannot tell you, and any guide that does should be asked where it got them. If price is the deciding factor, Idealista's July 2026 municipality figures put La Orotava, Los Realejos and Icod de los Vinos all below Puerto de la Cruz per square metre, and Icod de los Vinos has the further advantage of being named in Hospital del Norte de Tenerife's own catchment statement, which this town is not. If a working tram matters, Metropolitano de Tenerife runs it between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna and describes it as a metropolitan-area service. If a larger international community is the draw, Adeje is majority foreign-born in the same census at the same date. And if a much smaller island appeals, La Gomera is worth a look, with the warning that Idealista publishes no asking price for any of its six municipalities.
Updated 2026-09-01
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearest of the five areas Idealista prices for the town, at about a tenth above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at well under half the town's own pace.
Second of the five priced areas, a little above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 somewhat ahead of the town's own pace.
Third of the five priced areas and a shade above the municipal figure per square metre, but much the fastest riser of them over the year to July 2026, at roughly twice the town's own pace.
Fourth of the five priced areas, a little below the municipal figure per square metre, and the one whose asking level eased over the year to July 2026 while the town as a whole rose.
Cheapest of the five priced areas, at about three quarters of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 a little behind the town's own pace.
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Transfer tax rates as of August 2026. Rates are set per autonomous community and do change. Confirm the current figures with a Spanish lawyer or tax adviser before you budget.
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