Teruel · Aragon
Alcañiz
The capital of Lower Aragon, known for spectacular Holy Week ceremonies with tamborrada drum-playing, and the birthplace of filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
What Alcañiz is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
In the center of orchards and fertile olive groves, at the northeast corner of Teruel province.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de España, with the 15th-century Catalan Gothic Lonja and a Renaissance town hall facade
Fiestas
- Spectacular Holy Week ceremonies with tamborrada (drum-playing rituals)
A little history
Birthplace of surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Who it suits: Holy Week pilgrims · Buñuel film fans
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
- 7.6°C 0.2°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.7°C 1.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 45 days 34% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 10 46 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,816 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12
- Nearest international school
- 89 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 109 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 86% 7% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 86% 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,447
- Born in Spain
- 82.1% 6.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6% 2.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.06 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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