Huesca · Aragon
Huesca
A pleasant mix of urban and rustic, once briefly capital of the Aragón kingdom — modern apartment blocks around an atmospheric old quarter.
What Huesca is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
The provincial capital.
On the table. Outdoor cafés and drinking dens in the old quarter.
Worth the trip
- The Catedral, spanning brick Mudéjar to soaring Gothic, with a 16th-century alabaster retablo by Damián Forment
- A spiral staircase up the 14th-century bell tower with views to the Pyrenees
- The Museo Diocesano's sacred art
A little history
The Romans settled here first, calling it Osca; the Moors took Huesca in 718 and ruled almost four hundred years; in 1096 it became capital of the Aragón kingdom until power moved to Zaragoza in the early twelfth century.
Who it suits: Cathedral/history travellers · Base for the castle of Loarre
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°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.8°C 1.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 61 days 11% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.8 h/day 7% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,706/m² 23% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,494 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 30
- Nearest international school
- 3 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 55,033
- Born in Spain
- 80.9% 7.9% 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
- 0.6 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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