León · Castilla Y Leon
Riaño
A gateway town to the Picos de Europa, part of the wider Cordillera Cantábrica.
What Riaño is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
Near the Picos de Europa.
Who it suits: Base for Picos de Europa exploration
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
- 1.5°C 6.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 19.1°C 11.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 121 days 77% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 22 35 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €16,563 14% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 17.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 61 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 499 18 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 84 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 87 days 19% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 97 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 83% about the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 476
- Born in Spain
- 95.2% 6.4% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.4% 3.4% 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 Riaño fit you?
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