Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Peñafiel
A fabulous castle bearing an astonishing resemblance to a huge ship run aground, visible long before you reach the town.
Why people fall for Peñafiel
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
The first stop along the Rio Duero from Valladolid, 60km to the east.
Worth the trip
- A castle 210m long but only 23m across, resembling a ship run aground
- Pza. del Coso, doubling as perhaps the most spectacular bullring in Spain during the Día de San Roque festival
Fiestas
- Día de San Roque, every August
Who it suits: Castle/architecture travellers
Who Peñafiel 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 Peñafiel lands.
Peñafiel is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 47th and 76th 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
- 5.9°C bottom 30% of 8,131 towns 1.9°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C bottom 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days bottom 38% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.4 h/day top 43% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 35 top 43% of 8,033 towns 22 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,840 bottom 43% of 8,059 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.8% bottom 43% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5 top 12% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 57 km bottom 39% 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
- 39 min bottom 42% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.4 km top 1% 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
- 71 min top 47% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% top 50% of 8,132 towns 11% 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
- 5,163
- Born in Spain
- 84.4% 4.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.9% 2.1% above 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 Peñafiel 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 Peñafiel against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 53 min from Valladolid, if that's your anchor.
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