Huelva · Andalucía
Almonaster la Real
The most interesting of the sierra villages, its castle enclosing a tiny ninth-century mosque with what is said to be the oldest mihrab in Spain.
Why people fall for Almonaster la Real
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the Sierra de Aracena, alongside Jabugo and Aguafría.
Worth the trip
- La Mezquita, a ninth-century mosque enclosed within the castle, with what is said to be the oldest mihrab in Spain
Fiestas
- The village bullring tacked onto the mosque sees action once a year in August during the annual feria
Who it suits: Hikers · Moorish-architecture travellers
Who Almonaster la Real 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 Almonaster la Real lands.
Almonaster la Real is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 50th and 70th 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
- 12.8°C top 6% of 8,131 towns 5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 32.8°C bottom 23% of 8,131 towns 2.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 50 days top 16% of 8,088 towns 28% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.6 h/day top 1% of 3,829 towns 19% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 15 top 15% of 8,033 towns 41 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,331 bottom 35% of 8,059 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.4% top 35% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 60 km bottom 36% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 45 min bottom 32% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 12.3 km bottom 32% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 122 min bottom 13% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 73% bottom 22% of 8,132 towns 6% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 74% bottom 17% of 8,132 towns 9% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,761
- Born in Spain
- 95.7% 6.9% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Almonaster la Real 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 Almonaster la Real against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 78 min from Huelva, if that's your anchor.
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