Cáceres · Extremadura
Plasencia
A cathedral town that looks more impressive from afar than up close — its walls mostly hidden behind houses and its cathedral barely half-built, yet still worth a visit.
Why people fall for Plasencia
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the shadow of the Sierra de Gredos, surrounded on three sides by the Río Jerte.
Worth the trip
- A twin Catedral — old (13th/14th c. Romanesque) and new (unfinished Gothic) — with a Renaissance choir stall called 'the most Rabelaisian in Christendom'
- The arcaded Pza. Mayor, host to a farmers' market every Tuesday since the twelfth century
- The Parque de la Isla on the Río Jerte, with 55 surviving arches of a 16th-century aqueduct
Who Plasencia 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 Plasencia lands.
Plasencia is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 50th 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
- 9.4°C top 27% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.8°C bottom 9% of 8,131 towns 4.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days bottom 46% of 8,088 towns 6% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 bottom 49% of 8,033 towns 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,085/m² top 12% of 306 towns 51% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,394 bottom 36% of 8,059 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.1% top 49% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 142 km bottom 2% 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
- 3.9 km top 17% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days #14 of 17 regions, +32 days vs national 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 148 min bottom 4% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 32% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% top 36% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 40,224
- Born in Spain
- 92.6% 3.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.65 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 Plasencia 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 Plasencia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 81 min from Cáceres, if that's your anchor.
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