Teruel · Aragon
Alcañiz
The capital of Lower Aragon, known for spectacular Holy Week ceremonies with tamborrada drum-playing, and the birthplace of filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Why people fall for Alcañiz
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
In the center of orchards and fertile olive groves, at the northeast corner of Teruel province.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de España, with the 15th-century Catalan Gothic Lonja and a Renaissance town hall facade
Fiestas
- Spectacular Holy Week ceremonies with tamborrada (drum-playing rituals)
A little history
Birthplace of surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Who it suits: Holy Week pilgrims · Buñuel film fans
Who Alcañiz 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 Alcañiz lands.
Good for
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · dry winters
- Retiring couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · dry winters
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
- 7.6°C top 43% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.7°C bottom 30% of 8,131 towns 1.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 45 days top 11% of 8,088 towns 34% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 10 top 12% of 8,033 towns 46 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,816 bottom 42% of 8,059 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.6% bottom 30% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 89 km bottom 17% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.7 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
- 109 min bottom 19% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 86% bottom 40% of 8,132 towns 7% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 86% bottom 30% of 8,132 towns 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,447
- Born in Spain
- 82.1% 6.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6% 2.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.06 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 Alcañiz 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 Alcañiz against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 101 min from Zaragoza, if that's your anchor.
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