Ourense · Galicia
Ourense
Galicia's third-largest city, its historic core more engaging than the dispiriting urban sprawl around it — with hot springs enjoyed since Roman days.
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Why people fall for Ourense
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Set slightly back from the Río Miño atop a low hill.
On the table. A lively nocturnal tapas scene.
Worth the trip
- Attractively modernised thermal pools along the Río Miño, including the Termas Outariz
- The 12th-century Catedral de San Martiño / a Catedral modelled on Santiago's
- The thirteenth-century Ponte Romana and the modern Ponte Milenio
A little history
Ourense's original raison d'être, back in Roman days, was its hot springs.
Who it suits: Hot-spring bathers
Who Ourense 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 Ourense lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 105,609 people
- Remote-working couples 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 105,609 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
- 9.4°C top 27% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.9°C bottom 41% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 97 days bottom 13% of 8,088 towns 41% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.8 h/day bottom 6% of 3,829 towns 19% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 1 top 1% of 8,033 towns 55 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,602/m² top 32% of 306 towns 27% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,203 top 38% of 8,059 towns 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.1% bottom 33% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 66 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 64 km bottom 33% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 #8 of 17 regions, +7 vs national 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days #3 of 17 regions, −30 days vs national 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 68 min top 44% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 27% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 27% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 105,609
- Born in Spain
- 82.3% 6.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.04 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 Ourense 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 Ourense against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 69 min from Pontevedra, if that's your anchor.
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