Lleida · Cataluña
Bossòst
An enticing blend of history, alpine beauty and local cuisine, roughly equidistant to Vielha and the French border.
Why people fall for Bossòst
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
15km southeast of Vielha, just south of the French border in the Val d'Aran.
Worth the trip
- A beautiful twelfth-century Romanesque church with a well-preserved bell tower and Lombard-style apses
- The Còth de Baretja viewpoint over the Portilhon mountain pass, looking over the Val D'Aran
Who it suits: Val d'Aran travellers
Who Bossòst 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 Bossòst lands.
Probably not for
- American retirees 9th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild winters
- Retiring couples 13th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild winters
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
- -0.4°C bottom 1% of 8,131 towns 8.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 112 days bottom 8% of 8,088 towns 64% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 top 10% of 8,033 towns 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,805 top 30% of 8,059 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 14.2% bottom 6% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 116 km bottom 7% 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
- 20 min top 22% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 12.3 km bottom 32% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days #16 of 17 regions, +39 days vs national 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 134 min bottom 8% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 16% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 31% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,178
- Born in Spain
- 71.5% 17.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.5% 3.6% above 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 Bossòst 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 Bossòst against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities.
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