Bizkaia · País Vasco
Bermeo
A venerable old fishing port, gateway to a spectacular island shrine that appeared as 'Dragonstone' in Game of Thrones.
What Bermeo is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
3km north of Mundaka.
Worth the trip
- San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a tenth-century island shrine reached by 231 steep steps along a narrow ridge, sacked by Sir Francis Drake in 1593 and later a Game of Thrones filming location
A little history
The island shrine of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe was sacked by Sir Francis Drake in 1593 and featured as 'Dragonstone' in TV's Game of Thrones.
Who it suits: Game of Thrones fans · Hikers
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
- 10.5°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.9°C 4.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 124 days 81% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.5 h/day 38% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €17,332 20% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 8
- Nearest international school
- 20 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 26 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 17,116
- Born in Spain
- 85.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.8% 1.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.64 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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