Cantabria · Cantabria
Puente Viesgo
Home to El Castillo Cave, where Paleolithic inhabitants engraved and painted the walls.
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Why people fall for Puente Viesgo
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Worth the trip
- El Castillo Cave, with scattered, often enigmatic Paleolithic engravings and paintings
Who it suits: Prehistoric-art travellers
Who Puente Viesgo 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 Puente Viesgo lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · mild 23.3°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 16 min to a hospital
- Remote-working couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 16 min to a hospital
- Budget-first coastal settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 16 min to a hospital
- American retirees 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 16 min to a hospital · 2.1 US-born per 1,000
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
- 10.4°C top 19% of 8,131 towns 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.3°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 6.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 124 days bottom 6% of 8,088 towns 81% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 top 6% of 8,033 towns 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,098 bottom 47% of 8,059 towns 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.3% top 48% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 7 km top 5% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 #2 of 17 regions, +16 vs national 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 16 min top 14% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 6.5 km top 33% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days #15 of 17 regions, +34 days vs national 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 28 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 32% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 42% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,889
- Born in Spain
- 95% 6.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.9% 3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.08 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 Puente Viesgo 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 Puente Viesgo against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 16 min from Torrelavega, if that's your anchor.
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