Granada · Andalucía
Órgiva
The lively 'capital' and market centre of the western Alpujarras, with a bustling Thursday market.
What Órgiva is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
11km east of Lanjarón.
Worth the trip
- An over-restored Mudéjar palace now housing the ayuntamiento
- The sixteenth-century church of Nuestra Señora de la Expectación
Who it suits: Alpujarras travellers needing a supply stop
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
- 8.6°C 0.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.5°C 4.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.1 h/day 12% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €10,513 27% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 34.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 43.1 per 1,000 about the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 28 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 33 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 60 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 65% 14% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 10% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,763
- Born in Spain
- 73.3% 15.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 18.6% 14.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 6.07 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 Órgiva fit you?
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