Palencia · Castilla Y Leon
Frómista
A small Camino crossroads town, its undisputed highlight the exceptionally pure eleventh-century Romanesque church of San Martín.
Why people fall for Frómista
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
A small crossroads town with only a fraction of its medieval-era population.
Worth the trip
- The church of San Martín, part of a vanished abbey, with monster/human/animal carvings running around the roof
Who it suits: Camino de Santiago pilgrims
Who Frómista 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 Frómista lands.
Frómista is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 57th and 85th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
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
- 4.8°C bottom 15% of 8,131 towns 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.3°C top 23% of 8,131 towns 1.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days bottom 40% of 8,088 towns 3% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- 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
- €14,938 top 42% of 8,059 towns 3% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20% bottom 18% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 31 km top 33% 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
- 35 min bottom 48% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.4 km top 1% 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
- 65 min top 40% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% top 48% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 725
- Born in Spain
- 93.9% 5.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Frómista 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 Frómista against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 34 min from Palencia, if that's your anchor.
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