Gipuzkoa · País Vasco
Hondarribia
A frontier town with a fortified old quarter offering a real sense of history — a delightful little enclave of sturdily attractive medieval mansions.
Why people fall for Hondarribia
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Just under 40km east of San Sebastián, across the mouth of the Bidasoa river from Hendaye, France.
On the table. Many locals come to tapear (go tapas-hopping) in its numerous port taverns.
Worth the trip
- A fortified Casco Antiguo centred on Pza. de Armas
- The Castille de Carlos V, dating back to the tenth century, now an irresistible parador
- Playa Hondartza beach
- Calle Mayor, lined with old houses with wrought-iron balconies
Who it suits: Parador seekers · Day-trippers from San Sebastián
Who Hondarribia 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 Hondarribia lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · mild 25.5°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Remote-working couples 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 16,768 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 16,768 people
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
- 10.2°C top 21% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.5°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 4.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 140 days bottom 1% of 8,088 towns 103% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.9 h/day bottom 2% of 3,829 towns 33% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 top 30% of 8,033 towns 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €21,641 top 1% of 8,059 towns 49% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.4% top 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 62 km bottom 35% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 #9 of 17 regions, +3 vs national 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days #2 of 17 regions, −39 days vs national 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 13 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 22% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 24% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,768
- Born in Spain
- 90.6% 1.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.95 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 Hondarribia 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 Hondarribia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 21 min from Irun, if that's your anchor.
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