Cantabria · Cantabria
Potes
The main road junction and traveller's base on the east side of the Picos de Europa — a lovely medieval village tumbling down to the Río Deva.
What Potes is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
500m above sea level, at the confluence of the Deva and Quiviesa rivers.
Who it suits: Picos de Europa base
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
- 8.2°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.9°C 4.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 90 days 31% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,722 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 8.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 52 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 68 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 84 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,318
- Born in Spain
- 79.8% 9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.7% 0.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.04 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 Potes fit you?
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