Avila today: facts and numbers
Avila today: facts and numbers
- Official name: Ávila de los Caballeros
- Country: Spain / España
- Status: city and province
- Autonomous Community Castilla y León
- Population: approximately 53,000 in 2005
- Density: 226.87/km2 (587.6/sq mi)
- Postal code: 05001 - 05005
- Location: approximately 111 km / 70 miles north-west of Madrid (see Where is Avila)
- Nearest railway station: Chamartín
- By car: Take N-VI or A-6 tollway to Villacastin, then head south-west on the N-110. Alternatively, take M-505 / C-505 via El Escorial, branch off N-VI just before Las Rozas (see how to come from Madrid to Avila on google map)
- Language: Castilian Spanish
- Currency: Euro (EUR)
- Time zone: CET (UTC+1) / 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Summer Time (DST) CEST (UTC+2) / 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Country dialling code: +34
- Telephone area code: 92
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Electricity: 220 volts, 50 Hz - round two-pin plugs are used (don’t forget that you’ll probably need a plug adapter in order to be able to charge up your mobile phone. Mostly for UK and US phones)
- Average daily January temperature: 9ºC / 48ºF (see Avila weather today)
- Average daily July temperature: 31ºC / 88ºF
- City height above sea level: 1,130 metres / 3,706 feet
