Benicàssim / Benicasim

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Valencian Community requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2021, art. 211. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1994. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 34 wells and boreholes in Benicàssim / Benicasim. Half of the 32 with a depth found water at 15–40 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 48% porous aquifer, high productivity; 47% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 19 ha, in 2024.
• 4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9.7% in the 500-year one.
• 34% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 35% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 413 mm a year (1971–2000), about 356 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 30.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

la Pobla Tornesa · Orpesa / Oropesa del Mar · Borriol · Castelló de la Plana / Castellón de la Plana · Cabanes