Zaragoza · Aragon
Tarazona
A town where Jews, Muslims, and Christians have long coexisted, once host to the court of the Catholic Monarchs, its absorbing sights in an old upper town of Judería and Morería quarters.
Why people fall for Tarazona
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
9 miles north of Monasterio de Veruela, on the banks of the Río Queiles.
Worth the trip
- An old quarter retained around the former royal residence, now an episcopal palace
- The Judería and Morería (Jewish and Moorish quarters), with medieval houses lining the callejas and pasadizos
Fiestas
- Fêtes del Pilar, October 12, with floral and fruit offerings
A little history
Hosted the court of the Catholic Monarchs for a time.
Who it suits: Multicultural-heritage travellers
Who Tarazona 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 Tarazona lands.
Tarazona is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 36th and 60th 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
- 4.8°C bottom 11% of 8,131 towns 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.8°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 80 days bottom 24% of 8,088 towns 16% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.3 h/day bottom 41% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,887 bottom 44% of 8,059 towns 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 18.6% bottom 14% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 62 km bottom 34% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 #7 of 17 regions, +8 vs national 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 26 min top 35% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.1 km top 9% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days #13 of 17 regions, +29 days vs national 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 84 min bottom 40% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 84% bottom 35% of 8,132 towns 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% bottom 31% of 8,132 towns 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,872
- Born in Spain
- 82.2% 6.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.7% 1.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.18 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 Tarazona 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 Tarazona against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 73 min from Zaragoza, if that's your anchor.
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