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Avilés
Determined to consign its gritty industrial reputation to the past, with a spruce arcaded old town and a struggling futuristic architectural showpiece.
What Avilés is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km west of Gijón.
Worth the trip
- Centro Niemeyer, a multipurpose cultural complex designed by Oscar Niemeyer, opened 2010
- Parque de Ferrera, a pretty walled park in the old town
- La Iglesia de los Padres Franciscanos, holding the tomb of Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of St Augustine, Florida
A little history
Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the first governor of Spanish Florida, founded the first European city in what is now the United States, St Augustine, in 1565.
Who it suits: 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
- 10.3°C 2.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.2°C 8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 128 days 87% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.6 h/day 37% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,531/m² 31% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,545 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 41
- Nearest international school
- 1 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 25 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 75,915
- Born in Spain
- 89.8% 1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.58 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.
How does Avilés fit you?
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