Ávila · Castilla Y Leon
Ávila
A walled city on a high plain below the Sierra de Gredos, defined by two perfectly preserved kilometres of golden 11th-century walls and the cult of the mystic writer Santa Teresa, born here.
Why people fall for Ávila
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Set on a high plain with the peaks of the Sierra de Gredos as a backdrop.
Worth the trip
- Two km of 11th-century walls with 88 towers, golden in the evening sun
- Convento de Santa Teresa, built over her birthplace, with a Baroque chapel and reliquary holding her rosary and a finger bone
- Monasterio de la Encarnación, where she lived from 1535 to 1574
- Convento de San José, the first monastery she founded, holding her coffin and a blood-stained handkerchief
A little history
Birthplace and shrine-site of the mystic writer Santa Teresa, a major focus of religious pilgrimage.
Who it suits: Pilgrims and religious-history travellers · Walled-city sightseers
Who Ávila 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 Ávila lands.
Ávila is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 67th and 84th 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 15% of 8,131 towns 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.7°C top 26% of 8,131 towns 1.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 66 days bottom 44% of 8,088 towns 4% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day top 46% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 bottom 41% of 8,033 towns 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,605/m² top 33% of 306 towns 27% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,261 top 37% of 8,059 towns 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.3% bottom 28% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 43 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 4 km top 2% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 3.4 km top 14% 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
- 85 min bottom 39% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 24% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 27% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 59,480
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2% 1.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 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 Ávila 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 Ávila against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 46 min from Segovia, if that's your anchor.
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