Arona, Tenerife: population, climate, prices
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands · 87,793 inhabitants (1 Jan 2025)
Living in Arona
Arona is a town of 87,793 inhabitants 5 km from the sea in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), with mild winters and mild, dry summers (January nights 11.3°C, August afternoons 24.7°C). Winter nights are mild for Spain: 11.3°C on average in January, warmer than 95% of the towns compared. 38.0% of residents are foreign nationals (38.6% among the over-65s), so English-speaking services are common. Summers stay moderate: August afternoons average 24.7°C, cooler than 94% of the towns. Against that, the centre is thin on everyday shops and services (2 of 6 essentials within a 10-minute walk); 7.4% of all homes are holiday lets (Spain 1.3%), so summers are busy and rents are under pressure; recorded crime is high (79.8 per 1,000 residents; Spain about 41, inflated by crimes against the many visitors). Around 2055, Spain's official climate scenarios put August afternoons here at about 26.7°C and the number of warm nights at 30 a year.
Each sentence is chosen by where the town ranks among the 333 places compared on that measure (top or bottom 20%); the numbers are the ones in the sections below, from the sources named there.
About Arona
Arona is a municipality in the southern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spanish region and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. The municipality covers an area of 81.79 square kilometres comprising 4% of the island's area. The town of Arona is 59 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's capital. The population in 2017 was about 93,496. It is the third largest city in Tenerife, after, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Arona has a pleasant climate with temperatures ranging from 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. Notable places include the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Costa del Silencio and Las Galletas. Arona also features Punta Salemas, the southernmost point of the island of Tenerife. The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.
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Getting there
- Nearest airport
- Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS), 12 km, 13,969,678 passengers in 2025, 110 destinations
- Direct to Amsterdam
- Tenerife South airport, 12 km (year-round)
- Direct to Brussels (Zaventem or Charleroi)
- Tenerife South airport, 12 km (year-round)
- Direct to London
- Tenerife South airport, 12 km (year-round)
- Direct to Paris
- Tenerife South airport, 12 km (year-round)
- Direct to Frankfurt
- Tenerife South airport, 12 km (year-round)
- Direct to the US
- Lisbon airport, 1,377 km (year-round); summer only from Faro, 1,283 km
- Train station
- no long-distance station within 15 km
- Fastest train to Madrid
- no direct train
- Fastest train to Barcelona
- no direct train
Distances are straight-line. Flights as listed in airport route tables on 4 Oct 2026; train times from Renfe's timetable (Iryo and Ouigo not included).
Healthcare
- Nearest public general hospital
- Hospital del Sur (in town, 1,000 beds)
- Nearest large public hospital (500+ beds, most specialties)
- Hospital Universitario de Canarias (56 km away, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 681 beds)
- Nearest private general hospital
- Hospital Universitario Hospiten Sur (in town, 242 beds)
- General hospitals within 25 km
- 3
- Waiting time for planned surgery (Canary Islands)
- 106 days on average; 17.4% wait more than 6 months (Spain: 121 days)
- Waiting time for a first specialist visit
- 162 days on average; 89.9% wait more than 60 days (Spain: 102 days)
Ministry of Health, National Hospital Catalogue 2025 (situation on 31 Dec 2024); general hospitals only. Distances are straight-line to the hospital's municipality. Residents registered in Spain use public hospitals; non-EU applicants for some visas must have private health insurance. Waiting times are for the whole region (public health service, 31 Dec 2025), as reported by each region to the Ministry of Health (SISLE-SNS); private insurance usually avoids most of the wait.
International schools
- Nearest international school
- WINGATE SCHOOL (curriculum not stated), Cabo Blanco, 3.1 km
- International schools within 25 km
- 1
- Nearest by curriculum (within 100 km)
- British 37 km · French 56 km · German 36 km
Within 30 km (up to five):
| School | Curriculum | Levels in the register | Where | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WINGATE SCHOOL | curriculum not stated | infant, primary, secondary | Cabo Blanco | 3.1 km |
Ministry of Education, register of non-university schools (RCD), October 2026: every school authorised to teach a foreign curriculum in Spain, without the business, arts and hairdressing schools in the same list and without schools for one nationality (Japanese, Libyan, Iraqi, Russian, Panamanian). Curriculum as labelled in the register or clear from the school's name; levels as listed in the register, which leaves them out for some schools. Straight-line distance from the town centre. We do not rate schools: visit, and ask about accreditation and fees.
Who lives here
- Population trend
- +9.8% in ten years (79,928 in 2015, 87,793 in 2025)
- Age
- 13.8% aged 65 or over, 13.9% under 16 (2022; Spain: 20.0% and 14.9%)
- Local income
- 11,184 € net per person per year (2023), 74% of the Spanish average; median 15,050 € per adult-equivalent
- Foreign residents
- 38.0% of all residents; 38.6% of residents aged 65+ (2022)
- Largest nationalities
- Italian 8.5%, British 5.2%, Chinese 2.2%, Moroccan 1.7%, Venezuelan 1.6%; all EU citizens 18.1% (share of all residents, 1 Jan 2022; the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the Nordic countries are not published per town)
INE: population register (Padrón) and household income atlas. Local income is a rough guide to local prices and affluence; Spain publishes no official cost-of-living index for towns.
Within a 10-minute walk of the centre
- Everyday essentials on foot
- 2 of 6 ✗ 15+ food shops ✗ 3+ pharmacies ✗ 25+ cafés, bars or restaurants ✓ 2+ parks ✓ 3+ bus stops ✗ 2+ libraries, theatres, cinemas or cultural centres
- Lively centre
- 11 out of 100: how much there is compared with the other 332 places (big cities score highest)
- 3 food shops (supermarkets, bakeries, greengrocers…)
- 1 pharmacies
- 1 doctors, clinics or hospitals
- 7 cafés, bars and restaurants
- 4 parks and gardens
- 11 bus stops
- 0 libraries, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres
- 0 market places
Counted in OpenStreetMap within 800 m of the town centre, taken as the point OpenStreetMap marks as the town's centre, moved at most 500 m to the busiest nearby spot (for a few spread-out municipalities without such a point: the busiest spot near the official coordinate). OpenStreetMap is kept by volunteers: very complete in most Spanish towns, thinner in some. “Everyday essentials” only asks whether the basics are there, so a small town can score 6 of 6; “lively centre” ranks each count among all 333 places and averages them, so it mostly reflects size. Large municipalities with several centres (Lorca, Oleiros, Ames…) can score low because their official centre is a small village.
Holiday lets and beaches
- Tourist apartments
- 3,967 (7.38% of all homes; Spain 1.28%), 17.8 tourist beds per 100 residents (May 2026)
- Blue Flag beaches
- 1 in town; 7 within 30 km
Tourist apartments: INE count of homes listed on Airbnb, Booking and Vrbo. A high share means busy summers and pressure on rents. Blue Flag 2026 (ADEAC): beaches meeting water-quality, safety and service standards; this includes some lake and river beaches. Distances are straight-line between town centres.
Water
No reservoir data: the Balearic and Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla get most of their water from groundwater and desalination plants, which this bulletin does not cover.
What the rankings say
Not named in the rankings we track.
Climate
● average daily high ● average nightly low ■ rainy days (1 mm or more). These are 1991-2020 averages, not record temperatures: a hot spell will be warmer and a cold night colder than these values.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average daily high, °C | 18.2 | 18.4 | 19.1 | 19.5 | 20.5 | 22.0 | 23.9 | 24.7 | 24.2 | 23.2 | 21.1 | 19.4 |
| Average nightly low, °C | 11.3 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 12.3 | 13.5 | 15.2 | 16.6 | 17.5 | 17.4 | 16.2 | 14.5 | 12.7 |
| Rain, mm | 20 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 32 |
| Rainy days (1 mm or more) | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 3.4 |
| Sunshine, hours per day | 6.7 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.5 |
| Humidity, % | 77 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 80 |
| Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F |
The year in numbers
- Köppen climate class
- BWk: Cold desert
- Summer mugginess (August average dew point)
- 15.1°C – noticeable (humidity from a nearby station)
- Days reaching 25 °C / 77 °F
- 21 a year (estimate)
- Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F
- 0 a year
- Days reaching 35 °C / 95 °F
- 0 a year (estimate)
- Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more)
- 0 a year (estimate)
- Frost nights (0 °C / 32 °F or less)
- 0 a year
- Average humidity
- 75%
Dew point measures how sticky the air feels: under 13 °C (55 °F) feels dry, 16-18 °C (61-64 °F) muggy, over 18 °C oppressive. For comparison, Davis, California (also Köppen Csa) has a summer dew point of about 11 °C. "Typical hottest day" is the 1991-2020 average of each year's single hottest day. Estimates are counted from daily satellite data adjusted to this place's averages; checked against AEMET's own 30 °C counts they are usually within 4 days a year.
Around 2055 (projection)
- August average high
- 26.7°C: +1.1 °C compared with today (models range from 0.4 °C to 2.9 °C)
- Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more)
- 30 a year, +22 (models: +9 to +57)
- Frost nights
- – a year (+0)
- Rainy days (1 mm or more)
- 36 a year, -2 (models: -5 to +2)
- Rain amount
- -23% over the year: summer -38%, winter -20%
- Sunlight reaching the ground
- not projected for the Canary Islands
Spain's official climate scenarios (Escenarios-PNACC 2024, AEMET regionalisation of 11 global climate models, ~5 km grid), middle emissions scenario SSP2-4.5: average change from 2011-2040 to 2041-2070, added to today's 1991-2020 values above. The range shows the lowest and highest of the 11 models. Rain: the same models regionalised by CSIC (DeepESD). Sunlight: EURO-CORDEX regional models (RCP4.5). A projection, not a forecast. Read: Spain around 2055, region by region →
Questions people ask
Where is Arona?
Arona is in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain, 5 km from the sea. The nearest airport is Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS), 12 km away.
How many people live in Arona?
87,793 registered residents on 1 January 2025 (INE), +9.8% in ten years.
What is the climate of Arona?
January afternoons average 18.2°C and nights 11.3°C; August afternoons 24.7°C. 7.9 hours of sunshine a day and 18 rainy days a year (AEMET 1991-2020).
Is Arona safe?
Recorded conventional crime in Arona was 79.8 offences per 1,000 residents in 2025, high for Spain (national rate about 41). Home burglaries: 1.26 per 1,000. Part of it is crimes against visitors, which count against the residents.
How hot is Arona in summer?
August afternoons average 24.7°C (1991-2020), with 0 nights a year above 20 °C and 0 days of 35 °C or more.
How cold is Arona in winter?
January afternoons average 18.2°C and January nights 11.3°C, with 0 frost nights a year.
Is there a hospital in Arona?
Yes: Hospital del Sur, a public general hospital with 1,000 beds. Planned surgery in Canary Islands waits 106 days on average.
Can you fly direct from Arona to Amsterdam or London all year?
Yes. Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS) (12 km away) has year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US.
What does it cost to rent or buy in Arona?
A typical apartment (62 m²) rented for 558 € a month in 2024 contracts. Homes were appraised at 2,793 €/m² on average over the last four quarters, 58.2% in five years.
Nearby and similar towns
- Nearest towns in this comparison
- Adeje (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 4 km), Granadilla de Abona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 10 km), Los Realejos (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 29 km), La Orotava (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 34 km), Puerto de la Cruz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38 km)
- Most similar towns (summer heat, winter nights, rainy days, home prices, size)
- Estepona (Málaga), Benalmádena (Málaga), Mijas (Málaga), Santa Lucía de Tirajana (Las Palmas), La Oliva (Las Palmas)
Distances are straight-line between town centres. Similarity is the distance in standardised values of the five measures.
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