Duty pharmacy in Salou today

The rota changes daily according to the calendar of the Col·legi de Farmacèutics de Tarragona. Check salou.cat (the Town Hall's annual PDF), the farmacias.es locator, the poster on the door of Farmàcia Arqué (Passeig de Miramar, 72) or call 012.

Four reliable sources: the annual calendar at salou.cat, the Col·legi Oficial de Farmacèutics de Tarragona at coft.cat, the national locator farmacias.es and the free 012 line of the Generalitat de Catalunya. We also post the day's rota on our door.

Yes. We are listed in the official calendar published at salou.cat as ARQUÉ – Passeig Miramar, 72 – 977 38 12 64 and cover the 24-hour duty shift the COFT assigns us, on weekdays, Sundays and holidays.

Salou's pharmacies relay each other around the clock: each day one pharmacy takes the full shift, from 9:00 to 9:00 the next day. On Sundays and holidays at least one is always open.

There isn't a single pharmacy open 24 hours every day. The service is covered through rotating shifts among the town's pharmacies, including Farmàcia Arqué, which together guarantee round the clock cover. Check which one is on duty right now at salou.cat, coft.cat, farmacias.es, or by calling 012.

Yesterday's. The duty shift runs from 9:00 to 9:00 the next day, so between midnight and 9:00 the pharmacy assigned to the previous day is still on duty. If you check the calendar at that hour, read the row for the day that is ending, not the one starting.

Salou Town Hall publishes the full annual calendar at salou.cat as a PDF, in the health facilities section. The shifts themselves are set by the Col·legi Oficial de Farmacèutics de Tarragona (coft.cat), the professional body for the province.

The duty pharmacy dispenses exactly as it would in normal hours: medicines that require a prescription still require one, electronic or on paper, and those that don't are dispensed with pharmacist advice. Duty cover extends the hours of service, it doesn't change the rules on dispensing.

The mechanism is the same all year. The calendar covers all 365 days, including Sundays, public holidays and the whole summer high season, with one duty pharmacy assigned to each. What changes in summer is demand, not the rota system.

This page lists the rota for the next seven days, with the pharmacy assigned to each date and its address, taken from the Ajuntament de Salou's official calendar. Remember each shift runs from 09:00 to 09:00 the following day, so the pharmacy listed for a date also covers the night that follows it.

No. The duty pharmacy exists to cover the hours when the others are shut. If we are open you can come straight to Passeig de Miramar, 72: we dispense exactly the same and we are probably closer. You only need the duty pharmacy outside our opening hours.