Granada · Andalucía
Calahorra, La
A village crowned by one of the finest Renaissance castles in Spain, above the cave-dwelling town of Guadix.
What Calahorra, La is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
16km beyond Guadix.
Worth the trip
- A magnificent sixteenth-century castle on a hill, with a remarkable Renaissance patio, only viewable on Wednesdays
Who it suits: Castle-history 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
- 8.6°C 0.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.5°C 4.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.1 h/day 12% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 33 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,940 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 54 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 38 min
- Nearest health centre
- 7.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 685
- Born in Spain
- 92.1% 3.3% 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 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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