Ciudad Real · Castilla-La Mancha
Almagro
An elegant little town that was quite a metropolis in southern Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries, thanks partly to the Fuggers, bankers to Carlos I.
What Almagro is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Twenty kilometres southeast of Ciudad Real.
Who it suits: Don Quixote literary pilgrims (region associated with Cervantes' novel)
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
- 7.2°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35.4°C 5.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 55 days 20% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 175 119 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,838 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 114 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 22 min
- Nearest health centre
- 70.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 164 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,238
- Born in Spain
- 90.5% 1.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.11 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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