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Chinchón
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur.
What Chinchón is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
45km southeast of Madrid.
On the table. Home of anís, a mainstay of breakfast drinkers across Spain.
Worth the trip
- The Neoclassical Iglesia de la Asunción, housing Goya's depiction of the Assumption
- The Museo Etnológico, displaying traditional anís-making machines
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Madrid
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
- 7.7°C 0.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.3°C 3.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8 h/day 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 117 60 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,062 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 55.1 per 1,000 25% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 25 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 494 13 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min
- Nearest health centre
- 9.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 50 days 54% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 51 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 58% 21% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 73% 10% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,826
- Born in Spain
- 81.2% 7.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.1% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.2 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 Chinchón fit you?
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