Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Tordesillas
A quiet riverside town boasting an important place in world history — here the 1494 treaty divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
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Why people fall for Tordesillas
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
30km southwest of Valladolid.
Worth the trip
- The Real Monasterio de Santa Clara, 'The Alhambra of Castile', originally a royal palace with delightful Mudéjar architecture
- A long medieval bridge across the Río Duero
- An arcaded Plaza Mayor of faded red-brick buildings
A little history
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands; Juana la Loca was later imprisoned for half a century in a palace here.
Who it suits: History travellers
Who Tordesillas 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 Tordesillas lands.
Tordesillas is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 58th and 80th 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
- 5.9°C bottom 30% of 8,131 towns 1.9°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C bottom 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days bottom 38% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.4 h/day top 43% 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
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,530 bottom 38% of 8,059 towns 7% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.1% bottom 39% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 68 km bottom 30% 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
- 20 min top 22% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km top 4% 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
- 35 min top 11% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 27% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 42% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,801
- Born in Spain
- 88.9% 0.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.6% 0.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.34 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 Tordesillas 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 Tordesillas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 29 min from Valladolid, if that's your anchor.
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