Teruel · Aragon
Albarracín
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? Rose-hued, half-timbered, geranium-balconied houses overhang twisting streets on a rocky promontory — once the seat of an independent Berber dynasty.
Living in Albarracín
Albarracín is a village of barely a thousand people, its rose-pink, half-timbered houses stacked on a rocky promontory above a loop of the Guadalaviar at around 1,300m. Life here is small and seasonal: winters are cold, averaging about 5°C and dropping below freezing on the coldest nights, while summers stay warm and dry with highs in the low 30s. Almost everything else is a drive away — the nearest hospital about 45 minutes off, and Teruel, the nearest town of any size, roughly the same. It draws climbers to the boulder-strewn hills around it, but as a place to settle it asks you to want quiet.
Albarracín's Spainability Scores — by who's moving
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities. Each score is Albarracín's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 74% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick for American retirees — a health centre close by and a settled international community.
- Winter average temp 5.4°C
- Drive to a hospital 44 min
- U.S.-born residents 3 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €4.82/m²·mo
Higher than 73% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick for a retiring couple — a health centre close by and a settled international community.
- Winter average temp 5.4°C
- Drive to a hospital 44 min
- Surgical wait (region) 132 days
- Registered long-let rent €4.82/m²·mo
Higher than 50% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick for a remote-working couple — a settled international community and a real food scene.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 82%
- Drive to nearest airport 144 min
- Registered long-let rent €4.82/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.6°C
Higher than 44% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — a settled international community and a real food scene.
- Schools in town 2
- PISA maths (region) 487
- Registered long-let rent €4.82/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 44 min
Higher than 35% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — a settled international community and a real food scene.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.6°C
- Rainy days a year 54 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 115
- Winter average temp 5.4°C
Higher than 31% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
How many of Spain's many pretty villages can match gorgeous Albarracín? A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — a settled international community and daily-needs services.
- Registered long-let rent €4.82/m²·mo
- Net income per person €15,203
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.6°C
What is the climate like in Albarracín?
Albarracín's reported winter average is 5.4°C, while July–August highs reach 31.6°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 5.4°C bottom 21% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.6°C bottom 31% of 8,131 towns 1.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 54 days top 26% of 8,088 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 7.3 h/day top 46% of 3,829 towns about the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 115 bottom 14% of 8,033 towns 59 above the Spanish average (56)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 0.03 ha/km² top 42% of 8,132 towns 2.28 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 3 bottom 32% of 8,132 towns 3 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 26% bottom 18% of 8,130 towns 3.1% above the Spanish average (22.9%)
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How good is healthcare in Albarracín?
Albarracín's nearest health centre is 4.6 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 44 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 44 min bottom 34% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.6 km top 24% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days #13 of 17 regions, +29 days vs national 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Albarracín?
Albarracín has 2 schools in town; the nearest international school is 123 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 123 km bottom 4% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 #7 of 17 regions, +8 vs national 6 above the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Albarracín?
Albarracín's reported registered long-let rent is €4.82/m²·mo.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €4.82/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €3.82/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €6.03/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €15,203 top 38% of 8,059 towns 5% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6% bottom 47% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Albarracín?
Spanish is the only region-wide official language in Aragón, and Spanish-medium teaching is the public-school default. Individual bilingual and international programmes can use other languages, so check the specific school. See the Aragón region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Albarracín?
Albarracín's reported population is 1,001.
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,001
- Born in Spain
- 82.7% 6.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Albarracín?
Albarracín is a reported 144 min drive from the nearest airport, with 74% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 144 min bottom 5% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 74% bottom 23% of 8,132 towns 5% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 82% bottom 24% of 8,132 towns 1% below the Spanish average (83%)
Numbers: Spainability town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Registered long-let rent is SERPAVI declared-contract data; its p25–p75 values show the observed band. Registered-rent yield is gross, excludes costs and is never imputed. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Albarracín fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Albarracín against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 44 min from Teruel, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Albarracín for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Request comparable sales; neither appraisal nor asking data is published.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
- Ask an insurer how the mapped flood or wildfire exposure affects cover.
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