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Cangas de Onís
A busy market town claiming the title 'First Capital of Christian Spain', though today a somewhat scruffy, workaday place specialising in activity tourism.
What Cangas de Onís is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At the junction of the main routes between the Picos de Europa and central Asturias.
On the table. Souvenir packages of cabrales cheese, cured meats, cider and multicoloured fabadas (beans).
Worth the trip
- The Puente Romano, a high-arched bridge with a cross dangling beneath, rebuilt many times but still a fine spectacle
A little history
As an early residence of the fugitive Asturian-Visigothic kings, Cangas lays claim to the title of 'First Capital of Christian Spain.'
Who it suits: Picos de Europa base · Activity tourists
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
- 11.3°C 3.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.8°C 7.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 123 days 79% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,217 9% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 55 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 27 min
- Nearest health centre
- 6.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 91 days 16% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 106 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 85% 6% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% 10% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,366
- Born in Spain
- 84.8% 4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.3% 1.5% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.2 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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