8 towns 30 minutes or less from Plaça Catalunya
by public transport, centre to centre, leaving 7–9am.
Each town lights up if it is within your time.
The towns within your time, cheapest first
Lowest rent: Santa Coloma de Gramenet, €687 a month.
- Santa Coloma de Gramenet22 min · €687/month100 %
- Montcada i Reixac24 min · €731/month100 %
- Cornellà de Llobregat24 min · €793/month100 %
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat20 min · €840/month100 %
- El Prat de Llobregat24 min · €841/month100 %
- Sant Adrià de Besòs22 min · €915/month100 %
- Badalona29 min · €965/month100 %
- Esplugues de Llobregat24 min · €1,390/month100 %
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Map sources and dates
Public transport: full trip centre to centre, walk to the stop included, leaving 7–9am on a weekday, waits and changes included (GTFS de ATM/Generalitat, buses interurbanos, Renfe Rodalies y FGC; read 11 October 2026). Car: OSRM over OpenStreetMap, no traffic, centre to centre. Rent: average on contracts signed in 2025 (Secretaria d'Habitatge, Generalitat de Catalunya — lloguer mitjà contractat (qww9-bvhh)). Resale homes: €/m², Jul 2025–Jun 2026 (Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge — compravendes registrades). Municipal boundaries: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, CC BY 4.0, read 17 October 2026. Grey: outside your time or no data; we don't estimate.
Fit: the town-page score, provisional, using only what we know (the minutes and, if you gave a limit, the price). 100% within your time; falls in a straight line to 0% at 1.5 times your maximum. The test adds the rest.
More layers: what you save per hour of travel, and the map by line
Verithic
See what you save in time and money
Pick where you work and where you live. The map shows where you pay less and how many minutes each town costs you.
Example with Badalona and Mataró: living in Mataró instead of Badalona: €192 less a month for 10.6 more hours of commuting a month. That is, you save €18 for every extra hour you spend commuting.
| One-way commute | Monthly cost | Commute hours a month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you liveBadalona | 29 min | €965 | 18.1 h |
| The one you compareMataró | 46 min | €772 | 28.8 h |
Monthly cost: average rent on contracts signed in 2025 (Secretaria d'Habitatge, Generalitat de Catalunya — lloguer mitjà contractat). One-way commute: Central Barcelona. With 5 office days a week and 45 weeks a year, round trip.
Gold outline: the towns with the best price for their distance. No other town is both closer to Plaça Catalunya by public transport and cheaper. See «The frontier»