Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Medina del Campo
Below one of the region's great Moorish brick castles, this was once one of the most important market towns in Europe.
Why people fall for Medina del Campo
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km south of Tordesillas, around 55km from Valladolid.
Worth the trip
- Castillo de la Mota, a brick-built Moorish castle that once housed Queen Isabel's army and later served as prison and girls' boarding school
- Museo de las Ferias, tracing the town's fifteenth/sixteenth-century trade fairs
- Pza. Mayor de la Hispanidad, still evocative of the days when the town's bankers determined European currency values
A little history
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries this was one of the most important market towns in Europe, with merchants coming from as far as Italy and Germany.
Who it suits: Castle/history travellers
Who Medina del Campo 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 Medina del Campo lands.
Medina del Campo is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 63rd and 86th 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
- 5.5°C bottom 23% of 8,131 towns 2.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.9°C bottom 43% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days top 48% of 8,088 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 bottom 41% of 8,033 towns 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,984 bottom 30% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.8% bottom 37% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 14 top 4% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 76 km bottom 25% 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
- 1.6 km top 7% 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
- 49 min top 23% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 29% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 20,238
- Born in Spain
- 89.3% 0.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.2% 0.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Medina del Campo 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 Medina del Campo against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 43 min from Valladolid, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Medina del Campo for you →Nearby towns
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