Valladolid · Castilla Y Leon
Peñafiel
A fabulous castle bearing an astonishing resemblance to a huge ship run aground, visible long before you reach the town.
What Peñafiel is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
The first stop along the Rio Duero from Valladolid, 60km to the east.
Worth the trip
- A castle 210m long but only 23m across, resembling a ship run aground
- Pza. del Coso, doubling as perhaps the most spectacular bullring in Spain during the Día de San Roque festival
Fiestas
- Día de San Roque, every August
Who it suits: Castle/architecture 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
- 5.9°C 1.9°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.7°C 0.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 67 days about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.4 h/day about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 35 22 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,840 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 57 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 39 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 71 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,163
- Born in Spain
- 84.4% 4.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.9% 2.1% 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 Peñafiel fit you?
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