About this site

En un lugar (“in a place”, from the opening words of Don Quixote) compares all 333 Spanish towns and cities of 25,000 or more inhabitants on the things that matter when you choose where to live: climate today and around 2055, home prices and rents, hospitals and waiting times, flights home, schools, shops within walking distance, safety and more.

Who makes it

The site is made by a Dutch family that has lived in Spain and plans to move back for good. It started as a spreadsheet for our own decision and grew into a comparison of every town, because the glossy “best places to live in Spain” lists never showed the data behind their choices. Nobody pays to be included or to rank higher; every town is in because it is big enough, and nothing else.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure is downloaded from an official or openly licensed source (AEMET, INE, the Spanish ministries, Renfe, AENA, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia) and processed by scripts; the sources & method page names each source, its date and the check we made against a figure the publisher itself announced. Where a number is an estimate, the page says so. When we find a mistake we correct it and note it there.

What it is not

Not advice. The site cannot know your situation, and official statistics have their limits: appraised home values sit below asking prices, crime is only what is reported, waiting times are regional averages. Use it to shorten your list, then go and see the places.

Contact

Questions, corrections, suggestions: write to us on our Facebook page. Follow it for new articles.

Site content © enunlugar.com; data remain © their publishers (AEMET, INE and others, see the method page). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0.