Girona · Cataluña
Girona
A city where crossing into the old quarter sweeps you back in time — dense, tangible layers of medieval history along its walls, rivers and stairways.
Why people fall for Girona
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
Built at the meeting of three rivers, dating back to the Roman Empire, peaking in the prosperous Middle Ages.
Worth the trip
- Medieval walls offering a prolonged vantage point the whole length of the city
- Museums accessing ruins of Arab bathhouses and monastic cloisters
- Popular cycling routes into the surrounding hills
Who it suits: Cyclists · Medieval-history travellers
Who Girona 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 Girona lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 28 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- American retirees 91st percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · a health centre close by
- Remote-working couples 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 108,352 people · a hospital in town
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
- 8.8°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C bottom 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days bottom 46% of 8,088 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day bottom 22% of 3,829 towns 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 bottom 31% of 8,033 towns 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,347/m² bottom 39% of 306 towns 6% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,857 top 17% of 8,059 towns 16% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.1% bottom 22% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 66 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 1 km top 1% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km top 4% 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
- 28 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 4% 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
- 108,352
- Born in Spain
- 70.5% 18.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.1% 0.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.06 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 Girona 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 Girona against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 61 min from Granollers, if that's your anchor.
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