Zaragoza · Aragon
Calatayud
A town of Moorish foundation, its old upper town home to churches with ornate Mudéjar towers.
What Calatayud is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- The church of San Andrés and Colegiata de Santa María, both with ornate Mudéjar towers
- San Juan el Real, featuring paintings attributed to the young Goya
- The ruins of a Moorish castle offering lovely views
Who it suits: Mudéjar-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
- 7.2°C 0.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.5°C 1.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days 18% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 51 6 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,955 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9
- Nearest international school
- 82 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 68 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 20,152
- Born in Spain
- 77% 11.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 10.6% 6.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.89 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 Calatayud fit you?
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