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San Vicente de la Barquera
A dramatic approach marooned on both sides by the sea, reached across a long causeway — a thriving fishing port with famed seafood restaurants, though functional rather than pretty.
Why people fall for San Vicente de la Barquera
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
12km west of Comillas.
On the table. A string of locally famed seafood restaurants.
Worth the trip
- The Puente de la Maza causeway across the Río Escudo
- An impressive Renaissance ducal palace and the Romanesque-Gothic church Santa María de los Ángeles atop the hilltop old town
Who it suits: Seafood diners
Who San Vicente de la Barquera 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 San Vicente de la Barquera lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 99th percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · mild 22.4°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Remote-working couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Budget-first coastal settlers 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 9 km from the sea · 3,989 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
- 10.5°C top 17% of 8,131 towns 2.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.4°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 7.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 122 days bottom 6% of 8,088 towns 78% 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
- €13,671 bottom 40% of 8,059 towns 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4% bottom 35% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 29 km top 30% 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
- 30 min top 43% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.7 km top 7% 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
- 46 min top 21% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 15% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 18% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 3,989
- Born in Spain
- 90% 1.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.25 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 San Vicente de la Barquera 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 San Vicente de la Barquera against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 30 min from Torrelavega, if that's your anchor.
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