Teruel · Aragon
Valderrobres
One of the Maestrazgo's most attractive towns, astride the trout-teeming Río Matarraña, dominated by a castle once owned by the archbishops of Zaragoza.
Why people fall for Valderrobres
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
50km from Calanda, near the Catalunya border, astride the Río Matarraña.
On the table. The Río Matarraña's crystal waters teem with trout.
Worth the trip
- The Castillo, once owned by the archbishops of Zaragoza, restored in the 1980s and hosting cultural events
- Santa María La Mayor, a fourteenth-century church with a fine rose window, one of the most impressive examples of Levantine Gothic in the region
Who it suits: Fly-fishers · Maestrazgo road-trippers
Who Valderrobres 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 Valderrobres lands.
Valderrobres is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 56th 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
- 11.7°C top 14% of 8,131 towns 3.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33°C bottom 22% of 8,131 towns 2.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 49 days top 16% of 8,088 towns 29% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.6 h/day top 38% of 3,829 towns 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 top 28% of 8,033 towns 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,203 bottom 33% of 8,059 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.7% top 34% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 88 km bottom 18% 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
- 65 min bottom 12% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km top 10% 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
- 115 min bottom 17% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 60% bottom 15% of 8,132 towns 19% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 85% bottom 29% of 8,132 towns 2% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,537
- Born in Spain
- 74.8% 14% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11% 7.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.79 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 Valderrobres 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 Valderrobres against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 114 min from Reus, if that's your anchor.
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