Granada · Andalucía
Calahorra, La
A village crowned by one of the finest Renaissance castles in Spain, above the cave-dwelling town of Guadix.
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Why people fall for Calahorra, La
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
16km beyond Guadix.
Worth the trip
- A magnificent sixteenth-century castle on a hill, with a remarkable Renaissance patio, only viewable on Wednesdays
Who it suits: Castle-history travellers
Who Calahorra, La 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 Calahorra, La lands.
Calahorra, La is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 62nd and 77th 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
- 8.6°C top 32% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.5°C bottom 11% of 8,131 towns 4.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days top 19% of 8,088 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.1 h/day top 11% of 3,829 towns 12% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 top 27% of 8,033 towns 33 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,940 bottom 17% of 8,059 towns 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.3% top 30% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 54 km bottom 42% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 38 min bottom 43% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 7.6 km top 41% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min top 40% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% bottom 41% of 8,132 towns 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% bottom 31% of 8,132 towns 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 685
- Born in Spain
- 92.1% 3.3% 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 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 Calahorra, La 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 Calahorra, La against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 54 min from Granada, if that's your anchor.
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