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Comillas
A curious rural town with pretty cobbled streets that seems almost oblivious to the sea, yet home to the first house ever designed by Antoni Gaudí.
Why people fall for Comillas
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
16km west of Santillana del Mar.
Worth the trip
- El Capricho, the whimsical 1883 villa by Gaudí with glazed handmade sunflower tiles
- Playa de Comillas and the longer, less developed Playa de Oyambre, 4km west
Who it suits: Gaudí/architecture pilgrims
Who Comillas 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 Comillas lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 17 km from the sea · mild 22.4°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 17 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 17 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Budget-first coastal settlers 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 17 km from the sea · 2,071 people
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
- 10.5°C top 17% of 8,131 towns 2.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.4°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 7.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 122 days bottom 6% of 8,088 towns 78% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 top 6% of 8,033 towns 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,226 bottom 49% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.6% top 24% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 21 km top 21% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 #2 of 17 regions, +16 vs national 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min top 42% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 8.4 km top 46% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days #15 of 17 regions, +34 days vs national 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 45 min top 20% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 17% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 17% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,071
- Born in Spain
- 88.4% 0.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.5% 0.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.97 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 Comillas 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 Comillas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 29 min from Torrelavega, if that's your anchor.
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