Balears, Illes · Baleares
Sóller
One of the most laidback and enjoyable towns on Mallorca — its appeal is general flavour rather than any specific sight.
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Why people fall for Sóller
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Reached by train and vintage tram down to its port, in the Serra de Tramuntana.
Worth the trip
- Narrow, sloping lanes lined with 18th/19th-century stone houses once belonging to well-heeled fruit merchants
- Plaça Constitució, dominated by the neo-Gothic church of Sant Bartomeu and its huge rose window
- Base for the GR221 Dry Stone Route hiking trail through the Serra de Tramuntana
Who it suits: Hikers
Who Sóller 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 Sóller lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 18 km from the sea · 13,996 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 18 km from the sea · 13,996 people
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 16 min to a hospital · a health centre close by
- Families with school-age kids 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 18 km from the sea · 13,996 people
- Heat-averse settlers 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 18 km from the sea · a real food scene
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
- 8.4°C top 34% of 8,131 towns 0.7°C above 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
- 70 days bottom 36% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 69 bottom 32% of 8,033 towns 12 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €17,154 top 14% of 8,059 towns 18% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.3% bottom 28% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 19 km top 18% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 #11 of 17 regions, −8 vs national 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 16 min top 15% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.9 km top 4% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days #11 of 17 regions, +2 days vs national 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 42 min top 17% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 10% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 1% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 13,996
- Born in Spain
- 71.6% 17.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11.1% 7.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 6.15 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 Sóller 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 Sóller against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 29 min from Palma, if that's your anchor.
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