Girona · Cataluña
Olot
La Garrotxa's amiable provincial capital, nestled among dormant volcanoes, whose dramatic landscape inspired the respected Olot School of landscape painters.
What Olot is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Amid dormant volcanoes, thick forests and cultivated valleys, protected by the Montsacopa crater.
Worth the trip
- Museu de la Garrotxa, showcasing the Olot School of 19th/20th-century landscape painters and modernista sculpture
- The Church of Sant Esteve, an 18th-century Neoclassical building with a last painting by El Greco
- Passeig d'en Blay, the central rambla lined with historic buildings and cafés
Who it suits: Art and nature travellers
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
- 5.4°C 2.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 79 days 14% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,600/m² 28% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,213 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 25
- Nearest international school
- 36 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 39,516
- Born in Spain
- 66.6% 22.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.56 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 Olot fit you?
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