Huesca · Aragon
Ansó
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets.
Living in Ansó
Ansó is a stone-built Pyrenean village of about 400, red roofs against green valley sides on the Río Veral, high up at nearly 1,500m. This is real mountain living: winters are long and cold, averaging 5°C with frost, and it is genuinely wet — well over a metre of rain and snow a year across a hundred rainy days. Even summers are cool for Spain, highs under 30°C. Almost everyone is Spanish-born, and it is remote — the nearest hospital close to an hour's drive, Pamplona an hour and a half — so the pleasure here is simply the quiet and the walking.
Ansó'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 Ansó's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 14% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. A strong pick for a retiring couple — a health centre close by and daily-needs services.
- Winter average temp 5°C
- Drive to a hospital 56 min
- Surgical wait (region) 132 days
Higher than 13% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. A strong pick for American retirees — a health centre close by and daily-needs services.
- Winter average temp 5°C
- Drive to a hospital 56 min
- U.S.-born residents 0 per 1,000
Not scored for heat-averse settlers — no registered-rent data for Ansó.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. Worth a look if you can't stand hot summers.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 28.5°C
- Rainy days a year 99 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 32
- Winter average temp 5°C
Not scored for families — no registered-rent data for Ansó.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. Worth a look for a family with school-age kids.
- Schools in town 0
- PISA maths (region) 487
- Drive to a hospital 56 min
- Nearest international school 66 km
Not scored for remote workers — no registered-rent data for Ansó.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. Worth a look for a remote-working couple.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 95%
- Drive to nearest airport 88 min
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 28.5°C
Not scored for budget-first coastal settlers — no registered-rent data for Ansó.
A rustic, alpine Pyrenean village — red-roofed stone houses against lush greenery, its pleasure simply wandering the cobbled streets. Worth a look for coastal living on a budget.
- Net income per person €15,596
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 28.5°C
What is the climate like in Ansó?
Ansó's reported winter average is 5°C, while July–August highs reach 28.5°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 5°C bottom 16% of 8,131 towns 2.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.5°C top 24% of 8,131 towns 1.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 99 days bottom 11% of 8,088 towns 45% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below 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 ha/km² top 1% of 8,132 towns 2.31 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 0 top 1% of 8,132 towns 6 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 26% bottom 20% 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 Ansó?
Ansó's nearest health centre is 7.5 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 56 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 56 min bottom 20% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 7.5 km top 44% 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 Ansó?
Ansó has 0 schools in town; the nearest international school is 66 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0 bottom 46% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 66 km bottom 28% 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 Ansó?
Ansó's reported net income per person is €15,596.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- no local data
- Registered rent p25
- no local data
- Registered rent p75
- no local data
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €15,596 top 33% of 8,059 towns 8% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.7% top 39% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Ansó?
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 Ansó?
Ansó's reported population is 409.
Who lives here
- Population
- 409
- Born in Spain
- 93.6% 4.8% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.2% 2.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Ansó?
Ansó is a reported 88 min drive from the nearest airport, with 72% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 88 min bottom 35% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 72% bottom 22% of 8,132 towns 6% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 43% of 8,132 towns 11% above 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 Ansó 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 Ansó against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 91 min from Pamplona/Iruña, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Ansó for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask local agents what long-let rents are actually closing at.
- 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.
- Test the reported airport drive at the time you would travel.
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