Lleida · Cataluña
Esterri d'Àneu
A once-rustic mountain community now angled as an alpine resort, with a well-restored old town.
What Esterri d'Àneu is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
In the Pyrenees, along a river with mountain scenery.
Worth the trip
- The elegant Sant Vicenç church rising over the old town
- A lovely Romanesque bridge dating to the early thirteenth century
Who it suits: Alpine-resort 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
- -0.4°C 8.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 112 days 64% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,960 10% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 114 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 51 min
- Nearest health centre
- 23.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 81 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
- 914
- Born in Spain
- 70.2% 18.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8.6% 4.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.19 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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