Cantabria · Cantabria
Laredo
One of Cantabria's most popular resorts, once briefly the region's capital, its old core sheltered behind a rocky promontory.
Why people fall for Laredo
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Poised 50km east of Santander and west of Bilbao.
Worth the trip
- The thirteenth-century parish church, Santa María de la Asunción
- Playa de Salvé, the best beach this side of San Sebastián, stretching 5km
A little history
Laredo was Cantabria's capital for a spell in the nineteenth century.
Who it suits: Beach holidaymakers
Who Laredo 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 Laredo lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · mild 22.7°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 · 10,675 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 10,675 people
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · a health centre close by
- Retiring couples 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
- 11.5°C top 15% of 8,131 towns 3.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.7°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 7.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 125 days bottom 5% of 8,088 towns 82% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 5.3 h/day bottom 4% of 3,829 towns 27% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 top 6% of 8,033 towns 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,453 top 48% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.9% bottom 22% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 32 km top 34% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 #2 of 17 regions, +16 vs national 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.1 km top 4% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days #15 of 17 regions, +34 days vs national 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 33 min top 9% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 13% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 1% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,675
- Born in Spain
- 89.3% 0.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.94 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 Laredo 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 Laredo against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 34 min from Santander, if that's your anchor.
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