Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Barcelona
El Masnou
Barcelona · Catalonia · 3.4 km²
What rustic land in El Masnou allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2012. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 97% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 12 wells and boreholes in El Masnou. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 11–26 m.
Ground: 37% practically impermeable; 31% porous aquifer, high productivity; 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 400 mm a year (1971–2000), about 336 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 28 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 3 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Teià · Alella · Montgat · Premià de Mar · Premià de Dalt
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.