León · Castilla Y Leon
León
A city whose stained glass alone would merit a considerable journey — a lively university town with one of the best tapas scenes in Spain and a thousands-strong daily flow of Camino pilgrims.
Why people fall for León
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Handsome old- and new-town areas set back from extensive riverside gardens.
On the table. One of the best tapas bar scenes in Spain.
Worth the trip
- The stained glass in the Catedral and Romanesque wall paintings in the Panteón Real of San Isidoro
- Large intact parts of the encircling medieval walls
- The Plaza Mayor, especially riotous during Semana Santa and the San Juan/San Pedro fiestas
Fiestas
- Semana Santa
- Fiestas of San Juan and San Pedro, last week of June
Who it suits: Camino pilgrims · Tapas crawlers
Who León 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 León lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 96th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 124,091 people
- Remote-working couples 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 124,091 people · a hospital in town
- Heat-averse settlers 94th percentile of 8,132 towns mild 27.3°C summer highs · a hospital in town
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
- 4.8°C bottom 11% of 8,131 towns 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.3°C top 14% of 8,131 towns 2.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 75 days bottom 31% of 8,088 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.5 h/day top 39% of 3,829 towns 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 22 top 23% of 8,033 towns 35 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,626/m² top 33% of 306 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,689 top 19% of 8,059 towns 15% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.9% bottom 22% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 84 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 2 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 #1 of 17 regions, +20 vs national 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.9 km top 4% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days #5 of 17 regions, −16 days vs national 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 15 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 6% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 8% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 124,091
- Born in Spain
- 86.7% 2.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 1.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.15 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 León 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 León against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 89 min from Siero, if that's your anchor.
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