Castellón/Castelló · Comunidad Valenciana
Montanejos
A tiny inland village popular for its warm hot springs.
What Montanejos is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
38km from Segorbe.
Worth the trip
- Fuente de Baños hot springs, where water emerges at 25°C with medicinal properties
- Walks linking to the nationwide GR trail network
Who it suits: Hot-spring bathers · Walkers
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)
- 30.6°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 43 days 37% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8 h/day 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 59 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,709 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 12.4%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 46.7 per 1,000 6% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0
- Nearest international school
- 41 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 61 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 79 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 93% 14% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 651
- Born in Spain
- 75.1% 13.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6.9% 3.1% above 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 Montanejos fit you?
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