Cáceres · Extremadura
Cáceres
A fairy-tale UNESCO monumental city protected by defensive walls, so cinematic it has doubled for Game of Thrones — and, like its twin Trujillo, crowned with storks' nests on every tower.
What Cáceres is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
The Ciudad Monumental old town, remarkably like nearby Trujillo, packed with mansions built on the proceeds of American exploration.
On the table. A contemporary food scene with restaurants and tapas bars as good as it gets.
Worth the trip
- The walled Ciudad Monumental, largely Moorish in construction with Roman fragments like the Arco del Cristo
- Storks' nests crowning every available tower and spire
- The annual WOMAD festival, second weekend of May, drawing up to seventy thousand spectators
Fiestas
- WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), second weekend of May
A little history
Has survived almost intact from its 16th-century period of splendour, built on wealth from American exploration.
Who it suits: History and architecture travellers · Film-location hunters · University-town nightlife (termtime)
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
- 9.5°C 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.9°C 3.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 8% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.3 h/day 15% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 21 36 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,570/m² 29% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,017 4% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 46
- Nearest international school
- 74 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 10.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 75 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 96,598
- Born in Spain
- 93.3% 4.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.9% 2.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.75 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 Cáceres fit you?
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