Ourense · Galicia
Castro Caldelas
A hilltop village crowned by a medieval castle giving tremendous views, near a jetty for boat trips on the Sil.
Why people fall for Castro Caldelas
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
50km east of Ourense, a few kilometres south of the Sil gorge/canyon.
Worth the trip
- A medieval castle at the very top with tremendous views over town and countryside
- A jetty base for boat trips on the Sil river
Who it suits: Sil-gorge boat trippers
Who Castro Caldelas 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 Castro Caldelas lands.
Castro Caldelas is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 44th and 81st 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
- 8.2°C top 36% of 8,131 towns 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.4°C top 48% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 103 days bottom 10% of 8,088 towns 50% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 2 top 1% of 8,033 towns 54 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,482 top 47% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.8% top 23% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 103 km bottom 11% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 #8 of 17 regions, +7 vs national 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min bottom 36% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days #3 of 17 regions, −30 days vs national 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 117 min bottom 15% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 59% bottom 15% of 8,132 towns 19% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 77% bottom 19% of 8,132 towns 6% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,237
- Born in Spain
- 87.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.81 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 Castro Caldelas 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 Castro Caldelas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 54 min from Ourense, if that's your anchor.
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