Lleida · Cataluña
Sort
The capital of the comarca of Upper Pallars, a pleasant mix of old and new catering to outdoor adventurers, and home to the annual Raiers (Rafters) Festival.
What Sort is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- An ancient core alongside modern facilities for outdoor adventurers
Fiestas
- Raiers (Rafters) Festival, early July, celebrating the log-rafters of the past
Who it suits: Outdoor-adventure 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
- -0.4°C 8.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 112 days 64% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 20 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,121 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 3
- Nearest international school
- 96 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 65 min
- Nearest health centre
- 5.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 66 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 84% 1% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,287
- Born in Spain
- 83.1% 5.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.1% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.44 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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