Lleida · Cataluña
Sort
The capital of the comarca of Upper Pallars, a pleasant mix of old and new catering to outdoor adventurers, and home to the annual Raiers (Rafters) Festival.
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Why people fall for Sort
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- An ancient core alongside modern facilities for outdoor adventurers
Fiestas
- Raiers (Rafters) Festival, early July, celebrating the log-rafters of the past
Who it suits: Outdoor-adventure travellers
Who Sort 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 Sort lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 4th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: close to a hospital
- American retirees 8th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: close to a hospital
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
- -0.4°C bottom 1% of 8,131 towns 8.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 112 days bottom 8% of 8,088 towns 64% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 top 18% of 8,033 towns 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,121 top 25% of 8,059 towns 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.7% top 34% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3 top 19% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 96 km bottom 14% 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
- 65 min bottom 12% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 5.4 km top 26% 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
- 66 min top 42% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% bottom 34% of 8,132 towns 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 84% bottom 27% of 8,132 towns 1% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,287
- Born in Spain
- 83.1% 5.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.1% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.44 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 Sort 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 Sort against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities.
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