Huesca · Aragon
Jaca
A busy industrial crossroads town whose unpromising first impression gives way to a bevy of sights evoking a long history, including a magnificent Catedral.
What Jaca is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
One of the main crossroads and transport hubs of northern Aragón.
Worth the trip
- The eleventh-century Cathedral de San Pedro Apóstol, one of the oldest in Spain
- The fifteenth-century Torre de Reloj watchtower
- Nearby skiing at Astún and Candanchú, 30km away
Fiestas
- An annual first-Friday-in-May festival celebrating the town's women driving back the Moorish armies
- Festival Folklórico de los Pirineos, late July/early August, odd years
- Festival Internacional en el Camino de Santiago, August
A little history
Founded by the Romans, conquered by the Moors in the early eighth century, won back by Christians later that century; in the eleventh century it became the first capital of the Aragón kingdom.
Who it suits: Skiers · Cathedral/history 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
- 5.2°C 2.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.3°C 0.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 83 days 21% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,746 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 50 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 86 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 14,012
- Born in Spain
- 82.3% 6.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.6% 1.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.21 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 Jaca fit you?
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