Palencia · Castilla Y Leon
Frómista
A small Camino crossroads town, its undisputed highlight the exceptionally pure eleventh-century Romanesque church of San Martín.
What Frómista is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
A small crossroads town with only a fraction of its medieval-era population.
Worth the trip
- The church of San Martín, part of a vanished abbey, with monster/human/animal carvings running around the roof
Who it suits: Camino de Santiago pilgrims
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
- 4.8°C 3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.3°C 1.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days 3% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 95 39 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,938 3% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 31 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 35 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 65 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 725
- Born in Spain
- 93.9% 5.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.2% 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.
How does Frómista fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Frómista against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 34 min from Palencia, if that's your anchor.
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