Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Segorbe
A tranquil inland town worth a visit for its ruins and setting among medlar and lemon orchards.
Why people fall for Segorbe
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
About 30km inland from Sagunto, in the valley of the Río Palancia.
Worth the trip
- A Catedral begun in the thirteenth century, its museum holding Gothic Valencian art and a Donatello marble Madonna
- A fountain with fifty spouts, one for each Spanish province
Fiestas
- Fiesta in September, including the Entrada de Toros y Caballos, where bulls are run through town by horses
Who Segorbe 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 Segorbe lands.
Segorbe is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 47th and 84th 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
- 12°C top 13% of 8,131 towns 4.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31°C bottom 38% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 42 days top 6% of 8,088 towns 39% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.9 h/day top 20% of 3,829 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 bottom 14% of 8,033 towns 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,559 bottom 38% of 8,059 towns 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.9% bottom 43% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7 top 9% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 23 km top 24% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 41 min bottom 38% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 61 min top 37% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% top 50% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 43% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,814
- Born in Spain
- 81.3% 7.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.82 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 Segorbe 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 Segorbe against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 41 min from Sagunt/Sagunto, if that's your anchor.
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