Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Segorbe
A tranquil inland town worth a visit for its ruins and setting among medlar and lemon orchards.
What Segorbe is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
About 30km inland from Sagunto, in the valley of the Río Palancia.
Worth the trip
- A Catedral begun in the thirteenth century, its museum holding Gothic Valencian art and a Donatello marble Madonna
- A fountain with fifty spouts, one for each Spanish province
Fiestas
- Fiesta in September, including the Entrada de Toros y Caballos, where bulls are run through town by horses
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
- 12°C 4.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31°C 0.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 42 days 39% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.9 h/day 9% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,559 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.9%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 46.7 per 1,000 6% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 23 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 41 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 61 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,814
- Born in Spain
- 81.3% 7.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.82 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.
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