Lleida · Cataluña
Esterri d'Àneu
A once-rustic mountain community now angled as an alpine resort, with a well-restored old town.
Why people fall for Esterri d'Àneu
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the Pyrenees, along a river with mountain scenery.
Worth the trip
- The elegant Sant Vicenç church rising over the old town
- A lovely Romanesque bridge dating to the early thirteenth century
Who it suits: Alpine-resort travellers
Who Esterri d'Àneu 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 Esterri d'Àneu lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 1st percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild winters
- American retirees 4th 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
- -0.4°C bottom 1% of 8,131 towns 8.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 112 days bottom 8% of 8,088 towns 64% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 top 18% of 8,033 towns 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,960 top 26% of 8,059 towns 10% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 8% bottom 2% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 114 km bottom 8% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 51 min bottom 26% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 23.7 km bottom 12% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days #16 of 17 regions, +39 days vs national 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 81 min bottom 43% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% top 2% of 8,132 towns 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 8% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 914
- Born in Spain
- 70.2% 18.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8.6% 4.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.19 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 Esterri d'Àneu 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 Esterri d'Àneu against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities.
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