Bizkaia · País Vasco
Elantxobe
A quiet fishing village away from major roads, its houses built on the steep Ogoño Cape — prepare for many stairs.
What Elantxobe is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
10km west of Lekeitio.
Worth the trip
- Cabo Ogoño, a rewarding round-trip walk with beautiful coastline views
- A cobbled street, C/Nagusia, so steep it connects the upper village to the harbour
- A tiny roundabout so small buses must be spun on a turntable
Who it suits: Off-beat coastal-village seekers
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
- 10.5°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.2°C 7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 105 days 53% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,534 28% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0
- Nearest international school
- 28 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 50 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 320
- Born in Spain
- 93.4% 4.6% 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
- 6.25 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.
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