Huesca · Aragon
Jaca
A busy industrial crossroads town whose unpromising first impression gives way to a bevy of sights evoking a long history, including a magnificent Catedral.
Why people fall for Jaca
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
One of the main crossroads and transport hubs of northern Aragón.
Worth the trip
- The eleventh-century Cathedral de San Pedro Apóstol, one of the oldest in Spain
- The fifteenth-century Torre de Reloj watchtower
- Nearby skiing at Astún and Candanchú, 30km away
Fiestas
- An annual first-Friday-in-May festival celebrating the town's women driving back the Moorish armies
- Festival Folklórico de los Pirineos, late July/early August, odd years
- Festival Internacional en el Camino de Santiago, August
A little history
Founded by the Romans, conquered by the Moors in the early eighth century, won back by Christians later that century; in the eleventh century it became the first capital of the Aragón kingdom.
Who it suits: Skiers · Cathedral/history travellers
Who Jaca 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 Jaca lands.
Jaca is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 60th and 88th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
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
- 5.2°C bottom 19% of 8,131 towns 2.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.3°C top 47% of 8,131 towns 0.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 83 days bottom 20% of 8,088 towns 21% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,746 top 31% of 8,059 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.5% bottom 29% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 50 km bottom 46% 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
- 2.2 km top 9% 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
- 86 min bottom 38% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% top 47% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% top 38% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 14,012
- Born in Spain
- 82.3% 6.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.6% 1.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.21 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 Jaca 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 Jaca against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 56 min from Huesca, if that's your anchor.
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