Córdoba · Andalucía
Montoro
A small white town straddling the Guadalquivir, crossed by a red sandstone bridge, its central plaza lined with interesting red-sandstone Renaissance buildings.
Why people fall for Montoro
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Developed on both banks of the Guadalquivir.
Worth the trip
- A 15th-century red sandstone bridge over the Guadalquivir
- Plaza de España, bordered by the Gothic-Mudéjar San Bartolomé Church and a Renaissance town hall with Mudéjar artesonado ceilings
Fiestas
- Holy Week, with over 60 pasos in procession
- Feria, end of May, with bullfighting
Who Montoro 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 Montoro lands.
Probably not for
- Heat-averse settlers 21st percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: mild summers
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
- 11.1°C top 16% of 8,131 towns 3.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 37.1°C bottom 1% of 8,131 towns 6.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 55 days top 30% of 8,088 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.2 h/day top 9% of 3,829 towns 13% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 4 top 4% of 8,033 towns 52 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €10,975 bottom 8% of 8,059 towns 24% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.2% top 31% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 26 km top 27% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 58 min bottom 18% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 9.9 km bottom 45% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min top 33% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 72% bottom 21% of 8,132 towns 7% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 76% bottom 19% of 8,132 towns 7% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,012
- Born in Spain
- 96.9% 8.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.8% 2% 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 Montoro 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 Montoro against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 61 min from Córdoba, if that's your anchor.
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