Cáceres · Extremadura
Arroyo de la Luz
A small Extremaduran town known chiefly for a single Renaissance altarpiece.
What Arroyo de la Luz is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Worth the trip
- The Gothic nave of the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, with an altarpiece painted on-site 1560-63 by Luis de Morales
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
- 9.3°C 1.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.1°C 3.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 60 days 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 21 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,587 20% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 82 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 39 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 106 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 90% 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,495
- Born in Spain
- 98.1% 9.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.3% 3.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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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