Balears, Illes · Baleares
Valldemossa
An ancient hill town of rusticated houses and monastic buildings, famous as the retreat where George Sand and Frédéric Chopin spent a winter together.
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Why people fall for Valldemossa
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
10km southwest of Deià, in a lovely valley with a mountain backdrop.
Worth the trip
- The Real Cartuja de Valldemossa monastery, the island's most-visited building after Palma Catedral
- The cells where George Sand and Chopin lived for four months in 1838-39
A little history
Founded in the early 14th century when the asthmatic King Sancho built a royal palace in these hills for the easier air; in 1399 it passed to Carthusian monks who converted it into a monastery.
Who it suits: Literary/history pilgrims
Who Valldemossa 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 Valldemossa lands.
Good for
- American retirees 100th percentile of 8,132 towns 13.4°C average winters · 9.7 US-born per 1,000
- Remote-working couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 15 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Families with school-age kids 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 15 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Retiring couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 13.4°C average winters · 15 km from the sea
- Budget-first coastal settlers 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 15 km from the sea · 13.4°C average winters
- Heat-averse settlers 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 15 km from the sea · a real food scene
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
- 13.4°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 5.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30°C top 44% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days top 25% of 8,088 towns 22% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.8 h/day top 21% of 3,829 towns 8% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 69 bottom 32% of 8,033 towns 12 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €22,096 top 1% of 8,059 towns 52% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 14.9% bottom 7% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 11 km top 10% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 #11 of 17 regions, −8 vs national 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 24 min top 30% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 5.5 km top 27% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days #11 of 17 regions, +2 days vs national 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 39 min top 14% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 15% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 17% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,054
- Born in Spain
- 73% 15.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.8% 6.9% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 9.74 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 Valldemossa 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 Valldemossa against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 25 min from Palma, if that's your anchor.
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