Teruel · Aragon
Teruel
The smallest and one of the most isolated of Spain's provincial capitals, rivalled only by Seville as the home of Mudéjar architecture — home to Spain's own Romeo and Juliet legend.
Why people fall for Teruel
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
A rugged and sparsely populated wedge of Aragón with the coldest winters in the country.
On the table. Good tapas bars; ham officially certified, and truffles.
Worth the trip
- The Torre del Salvador, an early-14th-century Mudéjar tower with the city's best panoramas
- The Catedral de Santa María de Mediavilla, with an elaborately carved wooden ceiling depicting a full medieval cosmography
- Fundación Amantes, entombing the legendary 13th-century lovers Isabel and Juan Diego
A little history
An important Moorish city, it retained significant Muslim and Jewish communities after its Reconquest by Alfonso II in 1171, producing some of the finest Mudéjar work in Spain.
Who it suits: Mudéjar-architecture pilgrims · Romantic-legend seekers
Who Teruel 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 Teruel lands.
Good for
- Families with school-age kids 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 36,521 people · a hospital in town
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
- 5.4°C bottom 21% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.6°C bottom 31% of 8,131 towns 1.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days top 26% of 8,088 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day top 46% of 3,829 towns about 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
- €1,692/m² top 37% of 306 towns 23% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,220 top 24% of 8,059 towns 12% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.8% bottom 21% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 18 top 3% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 100 km bottom 13% 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
- 0 min top 1% 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
- 106 min bottom 22% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% top 49% 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
- 36,521
- Born in Spain
- 83.7% 5.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.47 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 Teruel 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 Teruel against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 88 min from Sagunt/Sagunto, if that's your anchor.
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