Girona · Cataluña
Banyoles
A town beautifully set on Lake Banyoles, founded around a 9th-century Benedictine monastery and drawing tourists since the 19th century for its medicinal waters.
What Banyoles is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
On the right bank of Lake Banyoles.
Worth the trip
- Lake Banyoles itself, over 1.2 miles long, an Olympic rowing venue during the 1992 Games
- Museu Arqueològic, in the 14th-century Pia Almoina building with a Gothic gallery
A little history
Dates back to the founding, in the 9th century, of the Benedictine Monastery of Sant Esteve; became an important city in the 13th-15th centuries.
Who it suits: Rowing/watersports enthusiasts
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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,164 12% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 11
- Nearest international school
- 17 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 37 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 20,887
- Born in Spain
- 76.7% 12.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.5% 1.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.77 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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