Lleida · Cataluña
Lleida
A rich-history inland Catalan city at the heart of a fertile plain — a Roman municipium, then centre of a small Arab kingdom, its splendid old Catedral alone justifies a visit.
What Lleida is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
At the heart of a fertile plain in inland Catalunya.
Worth the trip
- Seu Vella, the old Catedral enclosed within the ruined Castillo del Rey, with Gothic cloisters among the largest in the world
- Seu Nova, an austere 18th-century Neoclassical cathedral
A little history
First a municipium under the Roman Empire and later the centre of a small Arab kingdom, it was reconquered by the Catalans and became the seat of a bishopric in 1149.
Who it suits: University-town nightlife seekers · Architecture 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
- 7.3°C 0.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 46 days 33% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.7 h/day 6% 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
- €1,428/m² 35% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,062 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 91
- Nearest international school
- 16 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 21 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 147,369
- Born in Spain
- 72.2% 16.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.8% about the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 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 Lleida fit you?
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