Zaragoza · Aragon
Calatayud
A town of Moorish foundation, its old upper town home to churches with ornate Mudéjar towers.
Why people fall for Calatayud
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- The church of San Andrés and Colegiata de Santa María, both with ornate Mudéjar towers
- San Juan el Real, featuring paintings attributed to the young Goya
- The ruins of a Moorish castle offering lovely views
Who it suits: Mudéjar-architecture travellers
Who Calatayud 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 Calatayud lands.
Good for
- American retirees 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · dry 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
- 7.2°C top 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.5°C bottom 34% of 8,131 towns 1.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days top 32% of 8,088 towns 18% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 51 bottom 43% of 8,033 towns 6 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,955 bottom 45% of 8,059 towns 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.8% bottom 31% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9 top 7% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 82 km bottom 21% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 #7 of 17 regions, +8 vs national 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.9 km top 12% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days #13 of 17 regions, +29 days vs national 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 68 min top 44% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% top 39% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 44% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 20,152
- Born in Spain
- 77% 11.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.6% 6.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.89 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 Calatayud 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 Calatayud against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 63 min from Zaragoza, if that's your anchor.
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