Granada · Andalucía
Fuente Vaqueros
The birthplace of Federico García Lorca, Spain's national-treasure poet — his childhood home is now an intimate museum.
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Why people fall for Fuente Vaqueros
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
17km northwest of Granada.
Worth the trip
- Museo Casa Natal de Federico García Lorca, accessed only by guided tour, with family photographs and personal effects
A little history
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spain's national-treasure poet, spent the first few years of his life here; he is believed to have been executed by Falangists on 17 August 1936 near the villages of Víznar and Alfacar.
Who it suits: Literary pilgrims
Who Fuente Vaqueros 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 Fuente Vaqueros lands.
Fuente Vaqueros is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 61st and 80th 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
- 8.5°C top 33% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35.4°C bottom 3% of 8,131 towns 5.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days top 19% of 8,088 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.2 h/day top 5% of 3,829 towns 14% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 4 top 4% of 8,033 towns 52 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €9,414 bottom 1% of 8,059 towns 35% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 36.9% top 7% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 12 km top 10% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min top 42% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.7 km top 21% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 9 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% top 41% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 45% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,744
- Born in Spain
- 90.2% 1.4% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.21 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 Fuente Vaqueros 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 Fuente Vaqueros against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 29 min from Granada, if that's your anchor.
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