Toledo · Castilla-La Mancha
Talavera de la Reina
A town retaining part of its medieval walls, whose name is primarily associated with distinctive blue-and-yellow ceramic azulejo tiles.
What Talavera de la Reina is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
50 miles west of Toledo.
Worth the trip
- The Basílica of the Virgen del Prado, showing the evolution of azulejo tile styles from the 14th to 18th centuries
Who it suits: Ceramics/craft enthusiasts
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°C 0.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.9°C 4.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,248/m² 43% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,820 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 65 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 28.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 103 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 84,413
- Born in Spain
- 84.7% 4.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.6% 1.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.62 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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