Teruel · Aragon
Albarracín
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? Rose-hued, half-timbered, geranium-balconied houses overhang twisting streets on a rocky promontory — once the seat of an independent Berber dynasty.
Why people fall for Albarracín
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Built on a high rocky promontory above a loop of the Río Guadalaviar.
Worth the trip
- Age-old fortifications climbing the surrounding hills
- The Catedral and Museo Diocesano, with an eye-catching gilded altarpiece
- Hundreds of big boulders scattered around the rocky countryside, drawing climbers from across Europe
A little history
The Banu Razin clan of Berbers ruled here as an independent dynasty from 1013 to 1104, and the tiny statelet was not subsumed into Aragón until 1284/1333.
Who it suits: Climbers/boulderers · Medieval-history travellers
Who Albarracín 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 Albarracín lands.
Albarracín is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 48th and 72nd 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
- 5.4°C bottom 21% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.6°C bottom 31% of 8,131 towns 1.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days top 26% of 8,088 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.3 h/day top 46% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 bottom 14% of 8,033 towns 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,203 top 38% of 8,059 towns 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6% bottom 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 123 km bottom 5% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 #7 of 17 regions, +8 vs national 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min bottom 34% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.6 km top 21% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days #13 of 17 regions, +29 days vs national 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 144 min bottom 5% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 74% bottom 23% of 8,132 towns 5% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 82% bottom 24% of 8,132 towns 1% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,001
- Born in Spain
- 82.7% 6.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3 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 Albarracín 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 Albarracín against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 44 min from Teruel, if that's your anchor.
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