Cáceres · Extremadura
Arroyo de la Luz
A small Extremaduran town known chiefly for a single Renaissance altarpiece.
Why people fall for Arroyo de la Luz
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Worth the trip
- The Gothic nave of the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, with an altarpiece painted on-site 1560-63 by Luis de Morales
Who Arroyo de la Luz 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 Arroyo de la Luz lands.
Arroyo de la Luz is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 31st and 61st 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
- 9.3°C top 27% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.1°C bottom 13% of 8,131 towns 3.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 60 days top 42% of 8,088 towns 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 21 top 23% of 8,033 towns 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,587 bottom 14% of 8,059 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.1% top 26% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 82 km bottom 21% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 39 min bottom 41% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.4 km top 19% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days #14 of 17 regions, +32 days vs national 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 106 min bottom 21% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% bottom 45% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 90% bottom 39% of 8,132 towns 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,495
- Born in Spain
- 98.1% 9.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.3% 3.6% 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 Arroyo de la Luz 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 Arroyo de la Luz against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 40 min from Cáceres, if that's your anchor.
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