Girona · Cataluña
Olot
La Garrotxa's amiable provincial capital, nestled among dormant volcanoes, whose dramatic landscape inspired the respected Olot School of landscape painters.
Why people fall for Olot
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Amid dormant volcanoes, thick forests and cultivated valleys, protected by the Montsacopa crater.
Worth the trip
- Museu de la Garrotxa, showcasing the Olot School of 19th/20th-century landscape painters and modernista sculpture
- The Church of Sant Esteve, an 18th-century Neoclassical building with a last painting by El Greco
- Passeig d'en Blay, the central rambla lined with historic buildings and cafés
Who it suits: Art and nature travellers
Who Olot 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 Olot lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 39,516 people · a hospital in town
- Remote-working couples 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 39,516 people · 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
- 5.4°C bottom 22% of 8,131 towns 2.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C top 36% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days bottom 29% of 8,088 towns 14% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 bottom 31% of 8,033 towns 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,600/m² top 31% of 306 towns 28% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,213 top 37% of 8,059 towns 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17% bottom 10% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 25 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 36 km top 39% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km top 4% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days #16 of 17 regions, +39 days vs national 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min top 38% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 5% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 11% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 39,516
- Born in Spain
- 66.6% 22.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.56 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 Olot 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 Olot against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 44 min from Vic, if that's your anchor.
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