Spain: solar plant site data

Solar power in Spain: yield in 147 cities

PVGIS data for 147 main cities: from 1,151 kWh/kWp (Torrelavega) to 1,841 (El Ejido), median 1,615; median optimal tilt 36°. The median is 45.0% higher than Kyiv’s (1,114).

Median, 1 kWp: 1,615kWh/year
Range: 1,151–1,841kWh/year
Optimal tilt: 36°median
Cities: 147with PVGIS data

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A ground frame for a solar plant in Spain

Latitude 40.4°: the tilt and the row pitch follow it. Enter the snow and wind for Spain in the designer, by the national annex to the Eurocode.

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Regions

Region	Cities	Median, kWh/kWp	Range
Canary Islands	8	1,753	1,576–1,780
Andalusia	29	1,687	1,591–1,841
Region of Murcia	4	1,656	1,630–1,682
Valencian Community	15	1,632	1,582–1,704
Castilla–La Mancha	7	1,630	1,602–1,657
Community of Madrid	21	1,627	1,582–1,647
Aragon	3	1,624	1,603–1,636
Extremadura	3	1,615	1,609–1,616
Melilla	1	1,599	1,599–1,599
Ceuta	1	1,592	1,592–1,592
Balearic Islands	2	1,587	1,575–1,598
Catalonia	23	1,575	1,466–1,600
Castile and León	10	1,546	1,394–1,588
La Rioja	1	1,418	1,418–1,418
Navarre	1	1,404	1,404–1,404
Galicia	7	1,314	1,228–1,398
Asturias	3	1,202	1,181–1,215
Basque Country	6	1,175	1,171–1,274
Cantabria	2	1,174	1,151–1,198

Cities by yield

Main cities in Spain: yearly yield of 1 kWp and optimal tilt
Rank	City	kWh/kWp	Tilt
1	El Ejido	1,841	35°
2	Arrecife	1,780	27°
3	Roquetas de Mar	1,779	35°
4	San Bartolomé de Tirajana	1,770	25°
5	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	1,760	25°
6	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	1,757	26°
7	Santa Lucía de Tirajana	1,749	25°
8	Telde	1,743	26°
9	Motril	1,742	35°
10	San Fernando	1,737	34°
11	Vélez-Málaga	1,736	34°
12	El Puerto de Santa María	1,733	34°
13	Chiclana de la Frontera	1,730	33°
14	Almería	1,723	35°
15	Sanlúcar de Barrameda	1,719	34°
16	Marbella	1,712	33°
17	Jerez de la Frontera	1,711	34°
18	Cadiz	1,707	33°
19	San Vicente del Raspeig	1,704	36°
20	Huelva	1,700	34°
21	Málaga	1,698	34°
22	Estepona	1,687	33°
23	Benalmádena	1,684	33°
24	Elche	1,683	36°
25	Lorca	1,682	35°
26	Utrera	1,675	34°
27	Granada	1,673	35°
28	Dos Hermanas	1,672	34°
29	Seville	1,672	35°
30	Fuengirola	1,671	33°
31	Alcalá de Guadaira	1,669	34°
32	Cartagena	1,667	35°
33	Albacete	1,657	36°
34	Orihuela	1,656	36°
35	Córdoba	1,651	35°
36	Jaén	1,648	34°
37	Linares	1,647	35°
38	Parla	1,647	37°
39	Sagunto	1,647	37°
40	Paterna	1,646	37°
41	Molina de Segura	1,646	36°
42	Fuenlabrada	1,645	37°
43	Alcorcón	1,645	37°
43	Valdemoro	1,645	37°
45	Leganés	1,645	37°
46	Torremolinos	1,644	34°
47	Aranjuez	1,643	36°
48	Móstoles	1,643	37°
49	Benidorm	1,642	36°
50	Getafe	1,639	37°
51	Ciudad Real	1,638	35°
52	Elda	1,637	36°
53	Huesca	1,636	39°
54	Toledo	1,633	36°
55	Valencia	1,632	37°
56	Murcia	1,630	35°
57	Talavera de la Reina	1,630	36°
58	Coslada	1,628	37°
59	Alcobendas	1,628	37°
59	Torrent	1,628	37°
61	Torrejón de Ardoz	1,627	37°
61	Torrevieja	1,627	35°
63	La Línea de la Concepción	1,626	32°
64	Zaragoza	1,624	38°
64	Pozuelo de Alarcón	1,624	37°
66	Madrid	1,620	37°
67	Vila-real	1,620	37°
68	Mijas	1,620	33°
69	Rivas-Vaciamadrid	1,619	37°
70	Castellon	1,617	37°
71	Arganda del Rey	1,617	36°
72	Puertollano	1,617	35°
73	Cáceres	1,616	35°
74	Boadilla del Monte	1,615	36°
75	Alcalá de Henares	1,615	37°
76	Mérida	1,615	34°
77	Alicante	1,614	35°
78	San Sebastián de los Reyes	1,613	37°
79	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	1,611	27°
80	Cuenca	1,609	36°
81	Badajoz	1,609	34°
82	Majadahonda	1,608	37°
83	Las Rozas de Madrid	1,608	37°
84	Teruel	1,603	37°
85	Guadalajara	1,602	37°
86	Gandia	1,601	36°
87	Reus	1,600	38°
88	Sant Boi de Llobregat	1,600	38°
88	Viladecans	1,600	38°
90	Melilla	1,599	33°
91	Palma	1,598	36°
92	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	1,597	38°
93	Cornellà de Llobregat	1,594	38°
94	el Prat de Llobregat	1,594	38°
95	Ceuta	1,592	31°
96	Algeciras	1,591	31°
97	Sabadell	1,590	38°
98	Salamanca	1,588	36°
98	Lleida	1,588	37°
100	Vilanova i la Geltrú	1,587	38°
101	Castelldefels	1,585	38°
102	Terrassa	1,584	39°
103	Collado Villalba	1,582	36°
104	Alcoy	1,582	36°
105	Zamora	1,580	36°
106	Arona	1,576	26°
107	Manresa	1,575	38°
108	Calvià	1,575	34°
109	Cerdanyola del Vallès	1,574	38°
110	Barcelona	1,572	38°
111	Mollet del Vallès	1,570	38°
112	Santa Coloma de Gramenet	1,569	38°
113	Tarragona	1,568	38°
114	Rubí	1,568	38°
115	Granollers	1,565	38°
116	Valladolid	1,560	36°
117	Mataró	1,560	38°
118	León	1,559	37°
119	Palencia	1,555	36°
120	Sant Cugat del Vallès	1,552	38°
121	Badalona	1,551	38°
122	Soria	1,538	37°
123	Ávila	1,531	35°
124	Segovia	1,507	35°
125	Burgos	1,470	35°
126	Girona	1,466	38°
127	Logroño	1,418	37°
128	Pamplona	1,404	36°
129	Vigo	1,398	35°
130	Ponferrada	1,394	36°
131	Ourense	1,354	35°
132	Pontevedra	1,352	35°
133	Lugo	1,314	35°
134	Santiago de Compostela	1,301	35°
135	A Coruña	1,282	36°
136	Vitoria-Gasteiz	1,274	35°
137	Ferrol	1,228	36°
138	Getxo	1,224	36°
139	Avilés	1,215	38°
140	Oviedo	1,202	38°
141	Santander	1,198	36°
142	Gijón	1,181	37°
143	San Sebastián	1,177	37°
144	Irun	1,173	37°
145	Barakaldo	1,173	36°
146	Bilbao	1,171	36°
147	Torrelavega	1,151	38°

Snow and wind loads

Snow and wind loads for a site in Spain follow CTE DB SE-AE (Spain’s Código Técnico de la Edificación) and, where the Eurocodes are applied, UNE-EN 1991-1-3 and UNE-EN 1991-1-4 with the Spanish National Annex. Solispec computes loads by the Ukrainian DBN V.1.2-2 only, so this page shows no snow or wind values for Spain: enter the characteristic values from these documents in the designer’s «Own snow S0» and «Own wind W0» fields.

The frame calculation for such a site is preliminary: before installation it must be checked by an engineer who works to the country’s standards.

How these numbers are obtained

Yields are PVGIS 5.3 (SARAH3 database) of the EU Joint Research Centre: 1 kWp of crystalline panels on a free-standing frame, 14% losses, the tilt and azimuth with the highest yearly yield, for the city’s coordinates. The row pitch is for a table of two portrait panels at the optimal tilt, free of shade from 10:00 to 14:00 solar time on 21 December — the designer computes it the same way. Cities come from GeoNames: every one with at least 50,000 people and every regional capital. Snow and wind are not shown on these pages: they follow the national annex to the Eurocode.

Europe: Poland, Germany, Spain

Yield, tilt and row spacing for the main cities, from PVGIS.

Sources

GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — coordinates, elevation, population and divisions (changed)
Where to take snow and wind loads from: CTE DB SE-AE
How these numbers are computed

Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.