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Monchique

Faro
32 credits+14.3%
Foral Index: 42.1

City Statistics

Population

5659

Area

395.3 km²

District

Faro

NUTS II

Algarve

Category Breakdown

Performance across 6 scoring categories

People & Families

7.0 / 20

Economy & Jobs

8.1 / 20

Housing & Cost

4.9 / 20

Governance

8.0 / 20

Environment

7.7 / 20

News Radar

6.4 / 20

Top Scoring Drivers

Key indicators affecting this city's score

Municipal Environment Spending p.c.

PORDATA
Environment

€498

Data from 2024

P100

Heat-Risk Days

Open-Meteo Historical Climate
Environment

0.0%

Data from 2025

P100

Crimes Against the State

INE - Instituto Nacional de Estatistica
Environment

0

Data from 2025

P99

Micro-Contract Share (<5k€)

Foral Intelligence
Governance

0.0%

Data from 2026

P0

Emergency Wait (Very Urgent Priority)

SNS Tempos - Emergency Wait Times
People & Families

41 min

Data from 2026

P1

Average Annual Temperature

Open-Meteo Historical Climate
Environment

12.5°C

Data from 2025

P5

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Governance Digest

PDM — map and rules

Land classes, constraints and building rules for the concelho.

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City Strategy

Knowledge-base coverage

What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.

Review mode: Automatic (no operator review)Release: r21

Coverage of this analysis: between 14% and 21%

Still to confirm:
  • · Land applicability to be confirmed
  • · Document available — needs validation
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support

These open questions could change the conclusion.

See all (12)
  • · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
  • · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
  • · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
  • · Document available — needs validation — New housing
  • · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
  • · Document available — needs validation — Industry
  • · Missing document — Rural tourism in an existing building
  • · Missing document — Tourist housing in an existing building
  • · Document available — needs validation — New hotel

The conclusion for Housing extension is still subject to confirmation and could still change.

See sources and details

1 of 11 menu operations have a published framework in this release:

Next scheduled review: 2027-01-16. This is an internal review date, not a legal validity date: the law can change before it.

Per operation

  • Agricultural support — Partial evidence
  • Agriculture — Needs confirmation
  • Commerce — Needs confirmation
  • Equipment — Needs confirmation
  • Housing extension — Published framework
  • New housing — Needs confirmation
  • Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
  • Industry — Needs confirmation
  • Rural tourism in an existing building — Withheld
  • Tourist housing in an existing building — Withheld
  • New hotel — Needs confirmation

This municipality's own plan text

6 document version(s) with 1442 citable provisions.

Withheld operations

Rural tourism in an existing building, Tourist housing in an existing building

  • · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.