Cáceres · Extremadura
Trujillo
The most attractive town in Extremadura — a classic conquistador stage set of escutcheoned mansions, stork-topped towers and castle walls, birthplace of Francisco Pizarro.
What Trujillo is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
A very small place, still only a little larger than its extent in conquistador times.
Worth the trip
- Escutcheoned mansions and castle walls, largely untouched since the sixteenth century
A little history
Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, was born here, as were many of the men who helped him defeat the Incas.
Who it suits: Conquistador-history 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
- 9.5°C 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.9°C 3.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 8% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.3 h/day 15% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 44 12 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,227 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 116 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 61 min
- Nearest health centre
- 10.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 109 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 90% 11% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 90% 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,660
- Born in Spain
- 94.6% 5.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.4% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.19 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 Trujillo fit you?
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