Albacete · Castilla-La Mancha
Albacete
A largely modern city named 'the plain' by the Moors, notable for an Ionic-columned cathedral and an ornate 1925 glass-and-iron shopping arcade.
Why people fall for Albacete
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Capital of Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, with Ionic columns instead of ordinary pillars astride its nave
- Pasaje Lodares, a 1925 iron-and-glass gallery with neo-Baroque and modernist decoration, lined with shops
A little history
Named Al-Basit ('the plain') by the Moors.
Who Albacete is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Albacete lands.
Albacete is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 41st and 81st percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.1°C top 50% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.4°C bottom 18% of 8,131 towns 3.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 50 days top 17% of 8,088 towns 27% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day top 18% of 3,829 towns 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 211 bottom 2% of 8,033 towns 154 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,762/m² top 41% of 306 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,611 top 45% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.7% bottom 42% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 5 km top 3% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 #14 of 17 regions, −15 vs national 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 72.8 km bottom 3% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days #8 of 17 regions, −11 days vs national 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 116 min bottom 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 13% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 8% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 175,068
- Born in Spain
- 89% 0.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.51 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Albacete fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Albacete against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 92 min from Molina de Segura, if that's your anchor.
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