Doctors and pharmacies in Cadaqués: the health centre, night-time care and Figueres hospital

Cadaqués has a public health centre, CAP Cadaqués, open Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 20:00, with continuous care on Saturdays and Sundays in the same hours. Outside those hours, call 061 or go to CAP Roses, open 24 hours; in an emergency, call 112. The reference hospital is in Figueres.

Anyone spending a few weeks in Cadaqués ends up needing, sooner or later, a prescription, something for a child's fever or someone to look at an ankle twisted on a stone path. The village has a public health centre, its own duty pharmacy and a reference hospital on the other side of the hills. This is what the official sources say today, so you don't have to look it up in a hurry.

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The Cadaqués health centre (CAP)

The village's medical centre is CAP Cadaqués, a public primary care centre on carrer Nou, 6-10. According to the Generalitat's register of public facilities, it is open Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 20:00, and its continuous care service opens every day, Saturdays and Sundays included, in the same 8:00 to 20:00 slot. The contact email on the record belongs to the Roses primary care team of the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS).

For anything that isn't urgent —a prescription, a dressing, a blood pressure check— the sensible thing is to phone the centre first: the number is on that same official record. And once a month, on a Thursday from 8:00 to 15:00, the midwife from the sexual and reproductive health programme (ASSIR) holds a clinic at the CAP, according to the register.

At night and out of hours

From 20:00 the village CAP closes. The official record puts it plainly: outside those hours, call 061, the CatSalut Respon line, or go to CAP Roses, which is open 24 hours. That is the nearest out-of-hours centre the Generalitat itself points to, and it is worth knowing before you need it, not at midnight with a child in your arms.

112 is something else. As 3Cat explains, it is the number for emergencies that need firefighters, police or medical staff straight away, and it can also call out sea rescue if needed; 061 is for health questions and advice, and it can also send a doctor to your door or an ambulance. Both run 24 hours a day, 112 is free, and its operators answer in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and German.

The reference hospital, in Figueres

The hospital serving the Alt Empordà is the Hospital de Figueres, run by the Fundació Salut Empordà; its catchment area is the 68 municipalities of the county, some 140,000 people. Its A&E department is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, handles more than 80,000 visits a year and sees patients by severity, not by order of arrival: a nurse makes the first assessment and assigns a level. It has a translation service, the SEM medical ambulance is based at the hospital itself, and the foundation's website publishes A&E waiting times.

A word of warning about the name: the village has an institution called Hospital de Cadaqués, but it is not an emergency hospital. The Generalitat's register lists it as a care home for older people, with a day centre, a social canteen and a home help service. Figueres is reached along the same winding road you take into the village; we cover it in getting to Cadaqués.

Pharmacies and the duty pharmacy

The duty pharmacy is published every day by the Col·legi de Farmacèutics de Girona on its website, under «Quina farmàcia està en servei d'urgència?», with a list by town, opening hours, address and phone number. Cadaqués appears with its own duty pharmacy: on 17 October 2026, the village one was covering from 9:00 to 9:00 the following day.

If you are staying a while and want to know in advance, the same website has a PDF list generator: choose the municipality, Cadaqués, and a date range, and out comes the rota to print and stick on the fridge.

Which health card to bring

If you are coming from another Spanish region for a temporary stay, CatSalut puts it this way: you are entitled to care in Catalonia's public network by showing your own region's individual health card, as long as you are registered with the National Health System. If you are moving here to live, you need to apply for the Catalan card (TSI).

From the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or its provisional replacement certificate, together with an identity document, gives you the same public care as a resident for health problems that arise during your stay; they are not valid if the trip is precisely to receive treatment. From the United Kingdom, the global health card is accepted, as is the old British EHIC while it remains valid.

What changes because it's Cadaqués

Cadaqués sits at the end of the road, and that matters more in an emergency than on a beach day. So it is worth saving both numbers, 061 and 112, in your phone, and being clear from day one that at night the open centre the official record points to is CAP Roses.

The other particularity is the tramontana: when it blows hard, the exposed paths of the cape become tricky and the sea closes (what to do on those days). Better to leave the scramble over the rocks of Cap de Creus for another day than to have to call for help from somewhere you can only reach on foot. At sea, in an emergency, it is also 112.

Checked

Checked in October 2026 against: the Generalitat de Catalunya's register of public facilities (records for CAP Cadaqués, its continuous care and ASSIR services, CAP Roses and the Hospital de Cadaqués, updated on 17 October 2026), Fundació Salut Empordà (Hospital de Figueres and its A&E department), Col·legi de Farmacèutics de Girona (duty pharmacies and PDF lists), CatSalut (travel from outside Catalonia) and 3Cat (when to call 112 and when to call 061).