Bizkaia · País Vasco
Elantxobe
A quiet fishing village away from major roads, its houses built on the steep Ogoño Cape — prepare for many stairs.
Why people fall for Elantxobe
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
10km west of Lekeitio.
Worth the trip
- Cabo Ogoño, a rewarding round-trip walk with beautiful coastline views
- A cobbled street, C/Nagusia, so steep it connects the upper village to the harbour
- A tiny roundabout so small buses must be spun on a turntable
Who it suits: Off-beat coastal-village seekers
Who Elantxobe 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 Elantxobe lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 7 km from the sea · mild 23.2°C summer highs
- Budget-first coastal settlers 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 7 km from the sea · daily-needs services
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)
- 23.2°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 105 days bottom 9% of 8,088 towns 53% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 top 30% of 8,033 towns 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,534 top 6% of 8,059 towns 28% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.6% top 29% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0 bottom 46% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 28 km top 30% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 #9 of 17 regions, +3 vs national 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min bottom 34% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days #2 of 17 regions, −39 days vs national 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 50 min top 25% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 25% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 41% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 320
- Born in Spain
- 93.4% 4.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.9% 2.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 6.25 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 Elantxobe 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 Elantxobe against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 51 min from Bilbao, if that's your anchor.
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