Cáceres · Extremadura
Coria
A cool, quiet old town of stately whitewashed houses, its convent enclosed within Roman-era walls.
What Coria is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
South of the Sierra de Gata.
Worth the trip
- A fifteenth-century convent with a Gothic-Renaissance cloister, enclosed within third/fourth-century Roman walls
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 1.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35°C 4.8°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 59 days 13% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,195 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 31.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 8
- Nearest international school
- 132 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 127 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 90% 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 12,004
- Born in Spain
- 94.4% 5.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.25 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 Coria fit you?
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