Huelva · Andalucía
Almonaster la Real
The most interesting of the sierra villages, its castle enclosing a tiny ninth-century mosque with what is said to be the oldest mihrab in Spain.
What Almonaster la Real is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the Sierra de Aracena, alongside Jabugo and Aguafría.
Worth the trip
- La Mezquita, a ninth-century mosque enclosed within the castle, with what is said to be the oldest mihrab in Spain
Fiestas
- The village bullring tacked onto the mosque sees action once a year in August during the annual feria
Who it suits: Hikers · Moorish-architecture travellers
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
- 12.8°C 5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 32.8°C 2.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 50 days 28% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.6 h/day 19% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 15 41 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,331 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 60 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 45 min
- Nearest health centre
- 12.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 122 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 73% 6% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 74% 9% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,761
- Born in Spain
- 95.7% 6.9% 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 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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