Girona · Cataluña
Girona
A city where crossing into the old quarter sweeps you back in time — dense, tangible layers of medieval history along its walls, rivers and stairways.
What Girona is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
Built at the meeting of three rivers, dating back to the Roman Empire, peaking in the prosperous Middle Ages.
Worth the trip
- Medieval walls offering a prolonged vantage point the whole length of the city
- Museums accessing ruins of Arab bathhouses and monastic cloisters
- Popular cycling routes into the surrounding hills
Who it suits: Cyclists · Medieval-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
- 8.8°C 1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 65 days 5% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 7% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,347/m² 6% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,857 16% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 66
- Nearest international school
- 1 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 28 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 108,352
- Born in Spain
- 70.5% 18.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.1% 0.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.06 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 Girona fit you?
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