Castelló de la Plana / Castellón de la Plana

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 2021. 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 117 wells and boreholes in Castelló de la Plana / Castellón de la Plana. Half of the 102 with a depth found water at 33–120 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 52% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 29% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 25 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 9.5% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 392 mm a year (1971–2000), about 338 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 31.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Borriol · Almassora · Sant Joan de Moró · Benicàssim / Benicasim · Onda · l'Alcora