Huesca · Aragon
Huesca
A pleasant mix of urban and rustic, once briefly capital of the Aragón kingdom — modern apartment blocks around an atmospheric old quarter.
Why people fall for Huesca
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
The provincial capital.
On the table. Outdoor cafés and drinking dens in the old quarter.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, spanning brick Mudéjar to soaring Gothic, with a 16th-century alabaster retablo by Damián Forment
- A spiral staircase up the 14th-century bell tower with views to the Pyrenees
- The Museo Diocesano's sacred art
A little history
The Romans settled here first, calling it Osca; the Moors took Huesca in 718 and ruled almost four hundred years; in 1096 it became capital of the Aragón kingdom until power moved to Zaragoza in the early twelfth century.
Who it suits: Cathedral/history travellers · Base for the castle of Loarre
Who Huesca 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 Huesca lands.
Good for
- American retirees 90th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · a health centre close by
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
- 7°C bottom 49% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.8°C bottom 27% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 61 days top 45% of 8,088 towns 11% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.8 h/day top 24% of 3,829 towns 7% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 top 18% of 8,033 towns 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,706/m² top 39% of 306 towns 23% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,494 top 34% of 8,059 towns 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.8% bottom 12% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 30 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 3 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 #7 of 17 regions, +8 vs national 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km top 7% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days #13 of 17 regions, +29 days vs national 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min top 50% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 15% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 20% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 55,033
- Born in Spain
- 80.9% 7.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.7% 1.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.6 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 Huesca 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 Huesca against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 55 min from Zaragoza, if that's your anchor.
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