Cantabria · Cantabria
Laredo
One of Cantabria's most popular resorts, once briefly the region's capital, its old core sheltered behind a rocky promontory.
What Laredo is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Poised 50km east of Santander and west of Bilbao.
Worth the trip
- The thirteenth-century parish church, Santa María de la Asunción
- Playa de Salvé, the best beach this side of San Sebastián, stretching 5km
A little history
Laredo was Cantabria's capital for a spell in the nineteenth century.
Who it suits: Beach holidaymakers
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)
- 22.7°C 7.5°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 125 days 82% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 5.3 h/day 27% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,453 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 32 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 33 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 10,675
- Born in Spain
- 89.3% 0.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.94 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 Laredo fit you?
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