Cáceres · Extremadura
Cáceres
A fairy-tale UNESCO monumental city protected by defensive walls, so cinematic it has doubled for Game of Thrones — and, like its twin Trujillo, crowned with storks' nests on every tower.
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Why people fall for Cáceres
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
The Ciudad Monumental old town, remarkably like nearby Trujillo, packed with mansions built on the proceeds of American exploration.
On the table. A contemporary food scene with restaurants and tapas bars as good as it gets.
Worth the trip
- The walled Ciudad Monumental, largely Moorish in construction with Roman fragments like the Arco del Cristo
- Storks' nests crowning every available tower and spire
- The annual WOMAD festival, second weekend of May, drawing up to seventy thousand spectators
Fiestas
- WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), second weekend of May
A little history
Has survived almost intact from its 16th-century period of splendour, built on wealth from American exploration.
Who it suits: History and architecture travellers · Film-location hunters · University-town nightlife (termtime)
Who Cáceres 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 Cáceres lands.
Cáceres is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 60th and 87th 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
- 9.5°C top 26% of 8,131 towns 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.9°C bottom 14% of 8,131 towns 3.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days top 50% of 8,088 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.3 h/day top 4% of 3,829 towns 15% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 21 top 23% of 8,033 towns 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,570/m² top 30% of 306 towns 29% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,017 top 40% of 8,059 towns 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.9% bottom 38% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 46 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 74 km bottom 26% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 10.5 km bottom 41% 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
- 75 min bottom 49% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 22% of 8,132 towns 17% 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
- 96,598
- Born in Spain
- 93.3% 4.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.9% 2.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.75 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 Cáceres 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 Cáceres against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 77 min from Badajoz, if that's your anchor.
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