Cáceres · Extremadura
Hervás
A pleasant little valley-flank town with a fascinating former Jewish quarter.
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Why people fall for Hervás
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Perched on the flanks of a valley in northern Extremadura.
Worth the trip
- A former Jewish quarter
- A couple of small museums
Who it suits: Good touring base for the area
Who Hervás 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 Hervás lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 11th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: close to a hospital
- American retirees 16th 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
- 5.7°C bottom 26% of 8,131 towns 2.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.9°C top 16% of 8,131 towns 2.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 86 days bottom 17% of 8,088 towns 25% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 bottom 49% of 8,033 towns 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,248 bottom 21% of 8,059 towns 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 35.9% top 9% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 106 km bottom 10% 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
- 63 min bottom 14% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.2 km top 9% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days #14 of 17 regions, +32 days vs national 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 103 min bottom 24% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% top 50% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% bottom 38% of 8,132 towns 6% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 3,900
- Born in Spain
- 94.1% 5.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2% 1.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.03 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 Hervás 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 Hervás against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 73 min from Salamanca, if that's your anchor.
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