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Oasis with palm trees in the Platja del Regueral beach, also known as Platja del Prat den Fores, in Cambrils, Spain, in the Costa Daurada coast, in a panoramic format to use as web banner or header
Costa Daurada · Tarragona

Cambrils

3Winter liveability / 5To the sea 500 mTo the airport 85 min · BCNPer m² 2 414

Cambrils is a coastal town on the Costa Daurada, next to Salou and fifteen kilometres from Tarragona, with around thirty-three thousand residents. It comes in two parts: the old centre inland and the harbour by the water, a couple of kilometres apart. The harbour is still a working fishing port, and the town's reputation for restaurants rests on it.

Cambrils is the same shore as Salou but built differently: fewer hotels, more ordinary town life, and not everything closes in winter. For anyone moving that is a noticeable difference, and February is when to check it. There is a railway station in the town, Barcelona is a little over an hour away and Reus airport fifteen minutes. About a quarter of residents are foreign. Housing costs a fraction of Barcelona's, and that is the main reason people move here.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Salou · 7 kmthe resort next door and the theme park
  • Tarragona · 15 kmthe Roman amphitheatre and a real city
  • Reus · 15 kmthe low-cost airport and the modernist houses
Resalesource
2 414€/m²
+5.9% price growth yoy
appraised value, Ministerio de Vivienda
New build
Rent, 2 bed
950€/mo
Populationsource
37 068
Foreign residents 20.5%
Winter humidity
66%
Sunshine hours per year
2 700h
Rent, 1 bed
720€/mo
International schools
0
Internet
400Mbps

Cambrils sits in Costa Daurada, Tarragona, right on the water. The square metre is 32% above the Costa Daurada median: €2 414 against €1 833. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. Fast internet at a median of 400 Mbps: remote work is not a problem here.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
25min by car
Centre Mq Reus
Reus · 15.4 km · public
Terrainsource
flat
Centre at 6 m, 17 m of elevation change
under 25 m of elevation change within 700 m — pram, bicycle, bad knees all fine
Car-freeour rating
3/5
possible without a car, with caveats
Stations: Cambrils · bus stops within 1.5 km: 39

Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.

Sea temperature

5 months above 20 °C
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14
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
23
J
26
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27
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25
S
22
O
19
N
16
D

Tourist load

1
J
1
F
2
M
2
A
3
M
4
J
4
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5
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3
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On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
550€/mo
75th percentile
671€/mo
Flat size
73

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 2 250 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 950 € for a two-bedroom.

The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.

Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Cambrils

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom720/mo
2 bedrooms950/mo
3 bedrooms1 240/mo
Median of active leases, 2024550/mo

Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.

Schools nearby

estimate

International schools counted in the base: 0. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

2

Renting without a Spanish contract

How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.

  • Stock goes to tourist lets: long leases are scarce and competed for

This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.

Who lives here

INE 2025
Foreign residents on the padrón
20.5%
7,595 of 37,068
  • Morocco960
  • Russia595
  • Ukraine587
  • Italy556
  • Romania528
  • Colombia517
  • Argentina377
  • France291
Communities and services in their language
  • arArabic~4 850
  • ruRussian~2 460
  • frFrench~1 390

Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.

Winter direct flights from BCN

January 2026/2785 min to the airport
  • other countries76
  • Italy16
  • United Kingdom14
  • France11
  • Germany9
  • Poland6
  • Netherlands3
  • Switzerland3
  • Portugal3
  • Ireland2
  • Belgium2
  • Denmark2
  • Austria2
  • Sweden1
  • Norway1
  • Finland1
  • Czechia1

Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.

Paperwork and practicalities

Appointment for the TIE· Tarragonafrom reports
3
Three police stations: Tarragona, Reus and Tortosa. Two to four weeks of waiting. Nobody reports a shortage of fingerprint appointments, so treat this as a rough estimate.
1 — no slots for weeks, 5 — freely available. Checked 2026-09-17
Coworking within 3 km
not on the map
Dog beaches within 8 km
not on the map
Vets within 5 km
1

From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».

Month by month

Air, sea, how busy it gets and what stays open — for each month on its own.

Where to look next

Nearby on the same coast
Cheaper with the same sea
Similar price, other coasts
Compare with Granada
Verified: 2026-09-14 · where the data comes from