Albacete · Castilla-La Mancha
Albacete
A largely modern city named 'the plain' by the Moors, notable for an Ionic-columned cathedral and an ornate 1925 glass-and-iron shopping arcade.
What Albacete is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Capital of Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, with Ionic columns instead of ordinary pillars astride its nave
- Pasaje Lodares, a 1925 iron-and-glass gallery with neo-Baroque and modernist decoration, lined with shops
A little history
Named Al-Basit ('the plain') by the Moors.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.1°C 0.7°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.4°C 3.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 50 days 27% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 211 154 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,762/m² 20% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,611 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 72.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 116 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 175,068
- Born in Spain
- 89% 0.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.51 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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