León · Castilla Y Leon
Astorga
A small pilgrim-trail town whose location at a junction of historic Camino routes has made it a major tourism draw since the Middle Ages — heartland of the mysterious, red-haired Maragato people.
Why people fall for Astorga
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Southwest of León on the Camino Francés and Via de la Plata.
On the table. Culinary traditions revered for their Maragato heritage.
Worth the trip
- An incongruously grand Catedral
- A modernista bishop's palace designed by Antoni Gaudí
A little history
Astorga is the heartland of La Maragatería, the traditional homeland of a red-haired tribe of mysterious origin, some historians saying they came from the Rif Mountains of Morocco; originally Roman-settled, it was sacked by the Moors in the eleventh century.
Who it suits: Camino pilgrims
Who Astorga 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 Astorga lands.
Astorga is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 32nd and 83rd 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
- 4.8°C bottom 11% of 8,131 towns 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.3°C top 14% of 8,131 towns 2.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 75 days bottom 31% of 8,088 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.5 h/day top 39% of 3,829 towns 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 22 top 23% of 8,033 towns 35 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,155 bottom 48% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.9% bottom 31% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10 top 6% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 48 km bottom 48% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 #1 of 17 regions, +20 vs national 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 61 min bottom 15% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.4 km top 19% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days #5 of 17 regions, −16 days vs national 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 46 min top 21% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 33% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 43% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,300
- Born in Spain
- 90.6% 1.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.78 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 Astorga 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 Astorga against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from León, if that's your anchor.
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