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Chinchón
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur.
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Why people fall for Chinchón
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
45km southeast of Madrid.
On the table. Home of anís, a mainstay of breakfast drinkers across Spain.
Worth the trip
- The Neoclassical Iglesia de la Asunción, housing Goya's depiction of the Assumption
- The Museo Etnológico, displaying traditional anís-making machines
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Madrid
Who Chinchón 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 Chinchón lands.
Good for
- American retirees 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 18 min to a hospital · direct flights to new york
Probably not for
- Heat-averse settlers 16th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: on/near the sea
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
- 7.7°C top 41% of 8,131 towns 0.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.3°C bottom 19% of 8,131 towns 3.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days top 26% of 8,088 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8 h/day top 15% of 3,829 towns 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 117 bottom 10% of 8,033 towns 60 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,062 bottom 31% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32% top 19% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 25 km top 26% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 494 #4 of 17 regions, +15 vs national 13 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min top 19% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 9.1 km bottom 49% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 50 days #1 of 17 regions, −53 days vs national 54% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 51 min top 26% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 58% bottom 14% of 8,132 towns 21% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 73% bottom 17% of 8,132 towns 10% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,826
- Born in Spain
- 81.2% 7.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.1% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.2 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 Chinchón 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 Chinchón against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 23 min from Arganda del Rey, if that's your anchor.
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