Balears, Illes · Baleares
Maó
Menorca's compact island capital and the eighteenth-century birthplace of mayonnaise — its charm is wandering the alleyways, not any one sight.
What Maó is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Perched high above the largest natural harbour in the Mediterranean.
On the table. Birthplace of mayonnaise (mahonesa) in the eighteenth century.
Worth the trip
- A fish market in operation since 1927 on Pl. Espanya
- The harbourside strip of restaurants and cafés
- Georgian townhouses reflecting a strong British colonial connection
Who it suits: Short city stays (walkable in a day)
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
- 12.3°C 4.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.5°C 0.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 62 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,812/m² 27% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,314 13% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 104 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 15 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,986
- Born in Spain
- 74.4% 14.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.8% 0.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.81 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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