Badajoz · Extremadura
Llerena
A Plaza Mayor town with a harmonious Renaissance church façade holding a Zurbarán Crucifixion.
What Llerena is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
61 miles southeast of Mérida.
Worth the trip
- Church of Nuestra Señora de la Granada on Plaza Mayor, with a Crucifixion by Zurbarán inside
- Palacio de Luis Zapata, a Renaissance palace
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
- 9.5°C 1.7°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
- 58 days 15% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 106 49 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,810 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 94 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 101 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 86% 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 10% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,663
- Born in Spain
- 94.6% 5.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.8% 3.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.35 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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