Granada · Andalucía
Trevélez
Purportedly Spain's highest permanent settlement, with lower, middle and upper quarters in traditional Alpujarran style.
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Why people fall for Trevélez
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At the end of an austere ravine carved by the Río Trevélez.
On the table. Famous jamón (ham).
Worth the trip
- Traditional lower, middle and upper barrios (bajo, medio and alto)
- A grassy, poplar-lined valley where the river starts its long descent
Who it suits: High-mountain travellers · Ham enthusiasts
Who Trevélez 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 Trevélez lands.
Trevélez is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 36th and 78th 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
- 8.6°C top 32% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.5°C bottom 11% of 8,131 towns 4.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days top 19% of 8,088 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.1 h/day top 11% of 3,829 towns 12% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 top 32% of 8,033 towns 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,108 bottom 19% of 8,059 towns 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- no local data
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 38 km top 42% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 111 min bottom 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 13.5 km bottom 27% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 115 min bottom 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% top 2% of 8,132 towns 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 696
- Born in Spain
- 93.7% 4.9% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Trevélez 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 Trevélez against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 89 min from Motril, if that's your anchor.
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