Overall score
Use the Terrassa profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level metro context alongside Barcelona and Tarragona.
Overall67/100
Affordability70/100
Air quality66/100
Energy68/100
Spain / Southern Europe
Terrassa City Intelligence
Terrassa is an inland industrial city in the Barcelona metropolitan area of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain, with textile-manufacturing legacy, university, and commuter-rail activity inside a Mediterranean climate context. Terrassa is a southern europe city of about ~0.22M in Spain. On the composite city-intelligence score, Terrassa sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (67/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~0.22M
Image credit: Image: Oliver-Bonjoch / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall city intelligence
Mixed67/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Terrassa data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 67/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 70/100 | Terrassa's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 66/100 | Terrassa's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 68/100 | Terrassa's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 66/100 | Terrassa's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 68/100 | Terrassa's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 65/100 | Terrassa's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 65/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Safety
Deterministic safety estimates from our index — planning signals derived from country priors and city data, not official crime statistics.
Safety
Overall safety79/100
Low crime81/100
Personal safety81/100
Night safety77/100
Road safety77/100
Terrassa is estimated to be a generally safe city (79/100 in our safety index), with solid personal-safety indicators.
Quality of Life
A composite quality-of-life estimate and its component indicators.
Quality of Life
Quality of life82/100
Healthcare86/100
Education85/100
Green space78/100
Cleanliness84/100
Infrastructure87/100
Mobility68/100
Terrassa has a very high quality-of-life estimate (82/100), with notable strengths in healthcare, green space, cleanliness and infrastructure.
Family Friendliness
How the city scores for raising a family, with the indicators that drive it.
Family Friendliness
Family friendliness81/100
Education85/100
Green space78/100
Overall safety79/100
Terrassa scores very high for family living (81/100), helped by education access, safety, parks and green space and healthcare.
Digital Nomad Suitability
Suitability for remote workers, based on connectivity, mobility, and livability.
Digital Nomad Suitability
Digital nomad suitability77/100
Walkability83/100
Cycling64/100
Infrastructure87/100
Terrassa is high for remote workers (77/100), based on connectivity, affordability, walkability, safety and overall livability and day-to-day amenities.
Retirement Suitability
Suitability for retirement, weighing healthcare, affordability, climate, and environment.
Retirement Suitability
Retirement suitability81/100
Healthcare86/100
Cleanliness84/100
Outdoor lifestyle51/100
Terrassa is very high for retirement (81/100), appealing for healthcare access, affordability, a comfortable climate and a clean environment.
Emergency and public safety in Terrassa
Local public safety guidance for Terrassa, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
| Service | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| European emergency | 11224/7 | 112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge. |
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Terrassa, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Spain emergency profile.
Public safety sources
Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.
- European Commission: 112 — The European emergency number
Used as the primary attribution for the EU-wide 112 universal emergency number on European country profiles.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Terrassa
Healthcare context for Terrassa, with national-level information from Spain where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Terrassa, see the Spain healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Terrassa
Local mobility context for Terrassa, with national-level context from Spain where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Terrassa, see the Spain transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Terrassa. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Terrassa
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Terrassa will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Terrassa air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Terrassa modules
City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.
Cost of Living in Terrassa
Terrassa's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Terrassa
Terrassa's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Terrassa
Terrassa's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Terrassa
Terrassa's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Terrassa
Terrassa's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Terrassa
Terrassa's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Terrassa
Cost of living estimates for Terrassa — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Climate in Terrassa
Climate profile for Terrassa — Mediterranean climate, annual average 15.9°C, comfort score 88/100. Month-by-month temperatures, rainfall, sunshine, and the best months to visit. Deterministic planning estimates, not a forecast.
Visual guide to Terrassa
Source-attributed visual context for Terrassa using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Weekend trip planning guide for Terrassa
Weekend trip planning checklist for Terrassa — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.
Nearby weekend places from Terrassa
Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.
Estimate a monthly budget for Terrassa
Estimate a monthly budget for Terrassa using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Terrassa
Plan a trip budget for Terrassa using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Terrassa
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Terrassa. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Sabadell, Spain
Same region · about 8 km from Terrassa. Explore Sabadell's city intelligence profile.
Barcelona, Spain
Same region · about 23 km from Terrassa. Explore Barcelona's city intelligence profile.
Badalona, Spain
Same region · about 24 km from Terrassa. Explore Badalona's city intelligence profile.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Same region · about 24 km from Terrassa. Explore L'Hospitalet de Llobregat's city intelligence profile.
Tarragona, Spain
Nearby city · about 80 km from Terrassa. Explore Tarragona's city intelligence profile.
Girona, Spain
Nearby city · about 82 km from Terrassa. Explore Girona's city intelligence profile.
Lleida, Spain
Same region · about 114 km from Terrassa. Explore Lleida's city intelligence profile.
Perpignan, France
Cross-border · about 146 km from Terrassa. Explore Perpignan's city intelligence profile.
Carcassonne, France
Cross-border · about 186 km from Terrassa. Explore Carcassonne's city intelligence profile.
Narbonne, France
Cross-border · about 198 km from Terrassa. Explore Narbonne's city intelligence profile.
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Interpretation
Use the Terrassa profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level metro context alongside Barcelona and Tarragona. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (70/100) and energy (68/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (65/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Spain country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Terrassa appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.