Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Barcelona
Sabadell
Barcelona · Catalonia · 38 km²
What rustic land in Sabadell 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 2000. 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 one well or borehole in Sabadell. Its depth: 194 m.
Ground: 87% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.3% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.3% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 2.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.3% in the 500-year one.
- 2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 419 mm a year (1971–2000), about 355 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.5 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 15 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Sant Quirze del Vallès · Barberà del Vallès · Badia del Vallès · Polinyà · Santa Perpètua de Mogoda · Sentmenat · Cerdanyola del Vallès · Castellar del Vallès
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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.