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Chinchón
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur.
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Living in Chinchón
Chinchón is an enchanting small town of 5,800 southeast of Madrid, built around a picture-postcard porticoed Plaza Mayor overlooked by a 15th-century castle, and long famous as the home of anís, the aniseed liqueur. It functions largely as a weekend escape from the capital, though as a place to live it's a real, if small, Castilian town — about four-fifths Spanish-born, with Romanian, Moroccan and Colombian residents. The climate is dry Madrid-country: hot summers around 33°C, cold winters near 8°C. A hospital is under twenty minutes away and Madrid's airport about fifty; day-to-day, Arganda del Rey is the nearest larger town, twenty-odd minutes off.
Chinchón'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 Chinchón's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 92% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick for American retirees — 18 min to a hospital and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 7.7°C
- Drive to a hospital 18 min
- U.S.-born residents 1.2 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €6.63/m²·mo
Higher than 85% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick for a retiring couple — 18 min to a hospital and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 7.7°C
- Drive to a hospital 18 min
- Surgical wait (region) 50 days
- Registered long-let rent €6.63/m²·mo
Higher than 30% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick for a remote-working couple — a settled international community and 18 min to a hospital.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 73%
- Drive to nearest airport 51 min
- Registered long-let rent €6.63/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.3°C
Higher than 24% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — a settled international community and 18 min to a hospital.
- Registered long-let rent €6.63/m²·mo
- Net income per person €13,062
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.3°C
Higher than 21% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — a settled international community and 18 min to a hospital.
- Schools in town 4
- PISA maths (region) 494
- Registered long-let rent €6.63/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 18 min
Higher than 11% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
An enchanting little place with a picture-postcard Pza. Mayor and a fifteenth-century castle, best known as the home of anís liqueur. A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — a settled international community and 18 min to a hospital.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.3°C
- Rainy days a year 54 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 117
- Winter average temp 7.7°C
What is the climate like in Chinchón?
Chinchón's reported winter average is 7.7°C, while July–August highs reach 33.3°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.7°C top 41% of 8,131 towns 0.1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.3°C bottom 19% of 8,131 towns 3.1°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
- 8 h/day top 15% of 3,829 towns 10% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 117 bottom 10% of 8,033 towns 60 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)
- 1.2 ha/km² bottom 16% of 8,132 towns 1.11 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 31 bottom 3% of 8,132 towns 25 above the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 20.4% top 21% of 8,130 towns 2.4% below 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 Chinchón?
Chinchón's nearest health centre is 9.1 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 18 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min top 19% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 9.1 km bottom 46% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 50 days #1 of 17 regions, −53 days vs national 54% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Chinchón?
Chinchón has 4 schools in town; the nearest international school is 25 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 25 km top 28% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 494 #4 of 17 regions, +15 vs national 13 above the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Chinchón?
Chinchón's reported registered long-let rent is €6.63/m²·mo.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €6.63/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €5.21/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €8.44/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €13,062 bottom 31% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32% top 19% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Chinchón?
Spanish is the only region-wide official language in Madrid, 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 Madrid region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Chinchón?
Chinchón's reported population is 5,826.
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,826
- Born in Spain
- 81.2% 7.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 5.1% 1.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.2 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Chinchón?
Chinchón is a reported 51 min drive from the nearest airport, with 58% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 51 min top 26% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 58% bottom 14% of 8,132 towns 21% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 73% bottom 17% of 8,132 towns 10% 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 Chinchón 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 Chinchón against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 23 min from Arganda del Rey, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Chinchón 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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