Cambrils
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.
- Salou · 7 km — the resort next door and the theme park
- Tarragona · 15 km — the Roman amphitheatre and a real city
- Reus · 15 km — the low-cost airport and the modernist houses
Cambrils sits in Costa Daurada, Tarragona, right on the water. The square metre is 31% above the Costa Daurada median: €2 413 against €1 843. 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
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.
Cambrils sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 22 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Cambrils beaches and water quality
sourceCambrils has 9 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 10 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 8 of 9 were graded excellent. No beach here has been graded “poor” since testing began in 1990.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa de la Riera | 0.3 km | excellent | 3 seasons | none since 2017 |
| Playa Horta de Santa Maria | 0.5 km | excellent | 2 seasons | none since 1998 |
| Playa del Prat d’en Fores-Regueral | 1 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de la Llosa | 1 km | excellent | 29 seasons | none since 1997 |
| Playa de Cavet | 1.9 km | excellent | 19 seasons | none since 2007 |
| Playa de l’Ardiaca | 2.2 km | excellent | 29 seasons | none since 1997 |
| Playa de l’Esquirol | 2.7 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de Vilafortuny | 3.8 km | excellent | 10 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de Cap de Sant Pere | 4.8 km | good | — | none since 2001 |
Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis 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 bedroom | 720 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 950 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 240 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 550 €/mo | SERPAVI · 73 m² |
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
estimateInternational 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.
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- Morocco960
- Russia595
- Ukraine587
- Italy556
- Romania528
- Colombia517
- Argentina377
- France291
- 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
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.