Málaga · Andalucía
Gaucín
Almost a mountain village, commanding tremendous views to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast on a clear day.
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Why people fall for Gaucín
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km beyond Jimena, through cork oak woods and olive groves.
Worth the trip
- Views stretching to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast
Who it suits: Scenic road-trippers
Who Gaucín 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 Gaucín lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 9th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: close to a hospital
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°C top 38% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.4°C top 34% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 71 days bottom 34% of 8,088 towns 3% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 top 32% of 8,033 towns 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,068 bottom 9% of 8,059 towns 24% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 43.3% top 3% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 22 km top 22% 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
- 75 min bottom 7% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 10.3 km bottom 43% 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
- 121 min bottom 14% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 70% bottom 20% of 8,132 towns 9% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 80% bottom 22% of 8,132 towns 3% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,616
- Born in Spain
- 75.6% 13.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 16.2% 12.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 8.05 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 Gaucín 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 Gaucín against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 59 min from Línea de la Concepción, La, if that's your anchor.
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