If you don’t like heat and you are looking for a good destination for your holidays, you are surely interested in knowing which is the coldest town in Spain in summer . When we talk about cold, we mean really cold because in July and August the temperature rarely exceeds 23 degrees . As is logical, winters are freezing since the thermometer oscillates between -4 and 4 degrees. During the storm Filomena it was 32 degrees below zero!
The weather in Griegos, Teruel
But what locality is it? Griegos, a small town in Teruel nestled in the Sierra de Albarracín . It has a population of just 138 inhabitants and is the second highest municipality in Spain, which explains why it is the coldest town in Spain in summer: it is located at 1,604 meters above sea level.
Griegos is located 80 kilometers from Teruel capital . By car it takes just over an hour to get there on the TE-V-9021 road. The main economic activity is agriculture, especially wheat cultivation.
The climate is continentalized Mediterranean . The annual average temperature is 7.5 degrees. Winters are very cold and long, while summers are rough and short. In December and January the thermometers at night can drop from 15 degrees to zero. In addition, according to data from the State Meteorological Agency, in summer temperatures have been recorded below 0 degrees.
Greeks looking for new neighbors
Do you want to start a new life? Griegos is looking for two families to reside in the town. The City Council offers two permanent jobs in the hospitality industry and three months of free housing for those who settle there .
The two ports offered are to manage the municipal hostel and to work in a restaurant . There is only one requirement: that families have minor children so that the school does not close. The selected families have to pay 225 euros per month, to which 50 euros will be discounted for each child.
To date, the Consistory has received more than 3,000 applications , and the pre-selection is about to begin. “We expected to receive requests from Spain, but messages have reached us from all over Latin America, and also from European countries, such as Croatia or Romania,” the deputy mayor said.
