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Gijón
Not the Asturian capital, but what it lacks in status it makes up for in attitude — a gritty, muscular identity forged by iron and shipping industries, now Asturias's largest city.
What Gijón is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Occupies the narrow Santa Catalina peninsula, nestled between two coves.
On the table. Cider bars.
Worth the trip
- Elogio del Horizonte, a 500-tonne concrete monument by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida
- Two appealing city beaches and one of Spain's best botanical gardens
- Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos
- Semana Negra arts festival, second week of July
Fiestas
- Semana Negra, second week of July
A little history
Gijón is the result of the gritty determination of its inhabitants, and the iron and shipping industries that have fuelled its success.
Who it suits: Beach travellers · Cider-bar crawlers
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
- 11.5°C 3.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.1°C 7.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 122 days 78% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,342/m² 6% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,141 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 114
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 41 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 271,259
- Born in Spain
- 86.5% 2.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.7% 1.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.18 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 Gijón fit you?
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