Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Vilafamés
An attractive hill town that successfully mixes the medieval, Renaissance and modern, anchored by a well-regarded contemporary art museum.
What Vilafamés is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km inland from Castellón.
Worth the trip
- An ancient ruined castle, conquered by Jaime I in 1233
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in the fifteenth-century Palau del Batlle, with works by Miró, Chillida and Barjola
Who it suits: Art lovers
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
- 12.3°C 4.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.6°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 43 days 37% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8 h/day 10% 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
- €14,804 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 46.7 per 1,000 6% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 14 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 29 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
- 26 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 67% 12% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 77% 7% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,961
- Born in Spain
- 86.3% 2.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6.1% 2.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.51 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 Vilafamés fit you?
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