Gipuzkoa · País Vasco
Hondarribia
A frontier town with a fortified old quarter offering a real sense of history — a delightful little enclave of sturdily attractive medieval mansions.
What Hondarribia is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Just under 40km east of San Sebastián, across the mouth of the Bidasoa river from Hendaye, France.
On the table. Many locals come to tapear (go tapas-hopping) in its numerous port taverns.
Worth the trip
- A fortified Casco Antiguo centred on Pza. de Armas
- The Castille de Carlos V, dating back to the tenth century, now an irresistible parador
- Playa Hondartza beach
- Calle Mayor, lined with old houses with wrought-iron balconies
Who it suits: Parador seekers · Day-trippers from San Sebastián
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
- 10.2°C 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.5°C 4.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 140 days 103% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.9 h/day 33% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €21,641 49% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 62 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 13 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,768
- Born in Spain
- 90.6% 1.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.95 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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