León · Castilla Y Leon
León
A city whose stained glass alone would merit a considerable journey — a lively university town with one of the best tapas scenes in Spain and a thousands-strong daily flow of Camino pilgrims.
What León is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Handsome old- and new-town areas set back from extensive riverside gardens.
On the table. One of the best tapas bar scenes in Spain.
Worth the trip
- The stained glass in the Catedral and Romanesque wall paintings in the Panteón Real of San Isidoro
- Large intact parts of the encircling medieval walls
- The Plaza Mayor, especially riotous during Semana Santa and the San Juan/San Pedro fiestas
Fiestas
- Semana Santa
- Fiestas of San Juan and San Pedro, last week of June
Who it suits: Camino pilgrims · Tapas crawlers
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)
- 27.3°C 2.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 75 days 9% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.5 h/day 4% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 22 35 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,626/m² 26% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,689 15% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 20.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 84
- Nearest international school
- 2 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 15 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 124,091
- Born in Spain
- 86.7% 2.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.9% 1.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.15 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 León fit you?
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