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Ribadesella
An unaffected old fishing port at the mouth of the Sella river, holding a UNESCO World Heritage cave with vivid prehistoric horse paintings.
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Why people fall for Ribadesella
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
18km west of Llanes, at the mouth of the Sella river.
Worth the trip
- Cueva Tito Bustillo, adorned with prehistoric paintings created between 25,000 and 10,000 BC, declared a World Heritage Site in 2008
- Playa Santa Marina, lined with impressive 19th-century mansions built by returning emigrants
- 409km still to hike on the Camino del Norte from here to Santiago
A little history
The cave was sealed by a landslide around 12,000 years ago and only rediscovered in the late 1960s.
Who it suits: Prehistoric-art pilgrims · Camino del Norte walkers
Who Ribadesella 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 Ribadesella lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · mild 22.8°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 5,629 people
- Remote-working couples 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 5,629 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 5,629 people
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
- 11.3°C top 15% of 8,131 towns 3.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.8°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 7.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 123 days bottom 6% of 8,088 towns 79% 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
- €14,235 bottom 49% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32.3% top 18% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 48 km bottom 48% 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
- 26 min top 35% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.3 km top 10% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days #7 of 17 regions, −12 days vs national 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 86 min bottom 38% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 74% bottom 22% of 8,132 towns 5% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% top 45% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,629
- Born in Spain
- 88% 0.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.1% 0.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.07 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 Ribadesella 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 Ribadesella against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 53 min from Siero, if that's your anchor.
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