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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -16.2679,Lat: 28.4619
Elevation	181 meter above sea level
Local time	8:19:47am
At island	Tenerife
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Canarias
Wiki-website Provincia (Provincia)	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 La Cuesta	2.3 km	WestNorthWest
2 Los Campitos	2.4 km	NorthEast
3 Los Valles	3.1 km	North
4 Taco	3.1 km	West
5 Finca España	3.2 km	NorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Lisboa	Portugal	1286 km	NorthEast
2 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1309 km	EastNorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1723 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

Santa Cruz de Tenerife lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction South). The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de la Cueva de las Niñas (0.6 km² at a height of around 892 meter above sea level) at a distance of 85.8 km in SouthSouthEastern direction).

The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Teide (Stratovolcano) at a distance of 41.4 km (direction West). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1243.5 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1741 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 2%, low location: 32%, hill: 58%, low mountains: 9%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated.The surroundings of the place is highly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is urban.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Tenerife Sur Airport (at a distance of 53 km and direction SouthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (at a distance of 7.8 km in NorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Nature

18.8 km2

37.2%

Agriculture

6.6 km2

13%

Urban area

23.8 km2

47.1%

Infrastructure

1 km2

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in country Spain

Santa Cruz de Tenerife at Physical map (height map)

Height map of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	4.8 km	NorthWest
2 Teide National Park	Spain	42 km	West
3 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape	Spain	78 km	SouthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Anaga	ES	2.3 km	NorthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Santa María de Gracia

Type of weather in Santa María de Gracia	light rain
Current temperature:	22 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	9.26 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 5)
Wind direction:	North West
Air pressure:	1017 mb
Humidity:	89 %
Daylength at 11 September 2026:	12 hour and 27 minutes
Sunrise :	08:48 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:15 Europe/Amsterdam

Weather coming 24 hours

Santa María de Gracia - ES (longitude: -16.2679, latitude: 28.4619)
Distance weather station to place (direction