Segovia · Castilla Y Leon
Segovia
Likened by poets to a boat ploughing through the Castilian countryside — the Alcázar's turrets its figurehead, the cathedral spires its masts, the Roman aqueduct its prow.
Why people fall for Segovia
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
A hilltop old town parting the waters of the Río Eresma and Río Clamores.
On the table. Unforgettable culinary traditions are the main attraction for large numbers of madrileños.
Worth the trip
- The Roman aqueduct, over 800m of granite on 166 arches without a drop of mortar
- The Gothic Catedral
- The fairy-tale Alcázar
- Museo Zuloaga, housed in the Romanesque Iglesia San Juan de los Caballeros
A little history
It was in Segovia that Isabel la Católica was proclaimed queen of Castile in 1474.
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Madrid · Architecture pilgrims
Who Segovia 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 Segovia lands.
Segovia is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 55th and 79th 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
- 5.8°C bottom 29% of 8,131 towns 2°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
- 7.2 h/day bottom 36% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 60 bottom 41% of 8,033 towns 3 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,053/m² bottom 49% of 306 towns 7% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,622 top 32% of 8,059 towns 8% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.3% bottom 28% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 38 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 29 km top 31% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 #1 of 17 regions, +20 vs national 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 6 km top 30% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days #5 of 17 regions, −16 days vs national 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 87 min bottom 37% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 12% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 13% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 52,189
- Born in Spain
- 80% 8.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.4% 0.5% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.8 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 Segovia 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 Segovia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Collado Villalba, if that's your anchor.
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