Spain: solar plant site data
Solar power plant in Benidorm, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing
Benidorm: 1,642 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 36°, 1° west of south (PVGIS). 1.7% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #49 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 47.4% more here.
Benidorm is in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community. Population 70,450 (GeoNames). 30 m above sea level. 37 km away: Alicante, the nearest bigger city, 1,614 kWh/kWp — 1.8% more here. 6.07 m between rows, pitch 9.94 m, GCR 0.48 (latitude 38.5°).
- Yield of 1 kWp
- 1,642kWh/year
- Tilt
- 36°1° west of south
- 10 kW
- 16,421kWh/year
- Row pitch
- 9.94m · GCR 0.48
- Rank in the country
- 49of 147 cities
Ground frame designer
A ground frame for a solar plant: Benidorm
Latitude 38.5°: 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.
- No sign-up
- Snow and wind check
- Drawings and estimate
Yield by month
July: 163 kWh/kWp, December: 107 — 1.5 times less.
January: 118 against the median of 109 for the main cities of Spain, 8.3% more.
| kWp | A year | July | December |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8,211 | 815 | 535 |
| 10 | 16,421 | 1,630 | 1,070 |
| 15 | 24,632 | 2,445 | 1,605 |
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.
Nearby cities
Sources
- PVGIS © European Union, 2001–2026 — yield, tilt and azimuth, data as of 2026-10-10
- 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.