Girona · Cataluña
Ripoll
The cradle of Catalunya, where founding father Guifré el Pélos (Wilfred the Hairy) staked his claim to what became the Autonomous Community.
Why people fall for Ripoll
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
A quiet mountain town, a good starting point for exploring the Pyrenees.
Worth the trip
- Monestir de Santa Maria, its twelfth-century west portal facade considered one of Spain's great works of Romanesque art, nicknamed the 'Stone Bible'
- An international music festival in July and August at the fourteenth-century church of Sant Pere
- The Via Verde 'Ruta del Ferro i del Carbó' cycling/trekking route
Fiestas
- International music festival, July and August
A little history
Known as the cradle of Catalunya, as it was here that founding father Guifré el Pélos (Wilfred the Hairy) staked his claim to what became the Autonomous Community of Catalunya.
Who it suits: Pyrenees hikers · Romanesque-art travellers
Who Ripoll 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 Ripoll lands.
Ripoll is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 58th 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
- 5.4°C bottom 22% of 8,131 towns 2.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C top 36% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days bottom 29% of 8,088 towns 14% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 bottom 31% of 8,033 towns 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,621 top 32% of 8,059 towns 8% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.2% bottom 11% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7 top 9% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 56 km bottom 40% 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
- 12 min top 9% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.2 km top 9% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days #16 of 17 regions, +39 days vs national 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min bottom 49% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 23% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 32% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,812
- Born in Spain
- 80.4% 8.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.7% 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 Ripoll 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 Ripoll against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 39 min from Vic, if that's your anchor.
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