Bizkaia · País Vasco
Ondarroa
The easternmost coastal town in Bizkaia, a workaday place squeezed on either side of a narrow, steep-sided river mouth, its seaward end dominated by a no-nonsense fishing port.
What Ondarroa is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Looks very different from the small resorts farther east towards San Sebastián.
Worth the trip
- An attractive beach within easy walking distance east of the harbour
- The more substantial beach of Saturrarán around the headland
Who it suits: Off-beat coastal stopovers
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
- 10.5°C 2.8°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.2°C 7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 105 days 53% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 25 32 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €17,387 20% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 18.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 45 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 21 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 54 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,092
- Born in Spain
- 88.3% 0.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.4% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.35 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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