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Avilés
Determined to consign its gritty industrial reputation to the past, with a spruce arcaded old town and a struggling futuristic architectural showpiece.
Why people fall for Avilés
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km west of Gijón.
Worth the trip
- Centro Niemeyer, a multipurpose cultural complex designed by Oscar Niemeyer, opened 2010
- Parque de Ferrera, a pretty walled park in the old town
- La Iglesia de los Padres Franciscanos, holding the tomb of Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of St Augustine, Florida
A little history
Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the first governor of Spanish Florida, founded the first European city in what is now the United States, St Augustine, in 1565.
Who it suits: Architecture travellers
Who Avilés 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 Avilés lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · mild 22.2°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Remote-working couples 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 75,915 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 75,915 people
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
- 10.3°C top 21% of 8,131 towns 2.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.2°C top 2% of 8,131 towns 8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 128 days bottom 3% of 8,088 towns 87% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.6 h/day bottom 2% of 3,829 towns 37% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,531/m² top 27% of 306 towns 31% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,545 top 33% of 8,059 towns 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.6% bottom 20% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 41 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 1 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 #2 of 17 regions, +16 vs national 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.5 km top 1% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days #7 of 17 regions, −12 days vs national 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 25 min top 4% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 14% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 13% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 75,915
- Born in Spain
- 89.8% 1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.58 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 Avilés 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 Avilés against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 23 min from Gijón, if that's your anchor.
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