Burgos · Castilla Y Leon
Covarrubias
A superbly preserved white half-timbered village of sleepy gentility, arranged around three ever-prettier plazas.
Why people fall for Covarrubias
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
40km south of Burgos, by an old bridge overlooking the Río Arlanza.
Worth the trip
- The late-Gothic Colegiata de San Cosme y San Damián, crammed with tombs
Who Covarrubias 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 Covarrubias lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 11th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild winters
- American retirees 19th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild 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
- 4.7°C bottom 8% of 8,131 towns 3.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28°C top 18% of 8,131 towns 2.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 85 days bottom 20% of 8,088 towns 24% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.3 h/day bottom 17% of 3,829 towns 13% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 95 bottom 22% of 8,033 towns 39 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,662 top 32% of 8,059 towns 8% more than 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
- 32 km top 34% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 #1 of 17 regions, +20 vs national 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 40 min bottom 40% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 18.7 km bottom 15% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days #5 of 17 regions, −16 days vs national 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 116 min bottom 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 77% bottom 25% of 8,132 towns 2% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 77% bottom 19% of 8,132 towns 7% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 507
- Born in Spain
- 90.9% 2.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.9% 0.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.97 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 Covarrubias 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 Covarrubias against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 40 min from Burgos, if that's your anchor.
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