Córdoba · Andalucía
Montoro
A small white town straddling the Guadalquivir, crossed by a red sandstone bridge, its central plaza lined with interesting red-sandstone Renaissance buildings.
What Montoro is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Developed on both banks of the Guadalquivir.
Worth the trip
- A 15th-century red sandstone bridge over the Guadalquivir
- Plaza de España, bordered by the Gothic-Mudéjar San Bartolomé Church and a Renaissance town hall with Mudéjar artesonado ceilings
Fiestas
- Holy Week, with over 60 pasos in procession
- Feria, end of May, with bullfighting
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
- 11.1°C 3.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 37.1°C 6.9°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 55 days 20% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.2 h/day 13% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 4 52 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €10,975 24% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12
- Nearest international school
- 26 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 58 min
- Nearest health centre
- 9.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 58 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 72% 7% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 76% 7% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,012
- Born in Spain
- 96.9% 8.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.8% 2% below 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 Montoro fit you?
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