Cáceres · Extremadura
Hervás
A pleasant little valley-flank town with a fascinating former Jewish quarter.
What Hervás is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Perched on the flanks of a valley in northern Extremadura.
Worth the trip
- A former Jewish quarter
- A couple of small museums
Who it suits: Good touring base for the area
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
- 5.7°C 2.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.9°C 2.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 86 days 25% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,248 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 35.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 106 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 63 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 103 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% 6% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 3,900
- Born in Spain
- 94.1% 5.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2% 1.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.03 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 Hervás fit you?
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