Lleida · Cataluña
Bossòst
An enticing blend of history, alpine beauty and local cuisine, roughly equidistant to Vielha and the French border.
What Bossòst is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
15km southeast of Vielha, just south of the French border in the Val d'Aran.
Worth the trip
- A beautiful twelfth-century Romanesque church with a well-preserved bell tower and Lombard-style apses
- The Còth de Baretja viewpoint over the Portilhon mountain pass, looking over the Val D'Aran
Who it suits: Val d'Aran 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
- 7 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €15,805 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 14.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 116 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 20 min
- Nearest health centre
- 12.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 134 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,178
- Born in Spain
- 71.5% 17.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 7.5% 3.6% above 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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