Albacete

Understand

Climate Winters are cool while summers are hot. Winters and summers are usually dry. Because of the continental nature of the climate there is a large temperature variation during the year. Precipitation is low and mainly concentrated in spring and autumn, usually falling in the form of rain, although there is occasional snow.

Getting there

Halfway between Madrid and the Mediterranean coast, it enjoys connections by motorway, railway (including AVE), and air (Albacete Airport).

1 Albacete Airport (ABC IATA) (6 km (3.7 mi) south of the city). Charter flights arrive here but no scheduled airlines. Used for public general and military aviation. Albacete-Los Llanos railway station, Federico García Lorca street. (updated Oct 2020)

Getting around

The city has 10 lines of urban buses (7 of them daily). Albacete has more than 42 km (26 miles) of bike paths on urban roads in the city, adding to the more than 120 km (75 miles) of greenways, groomed trails, paths or bike lanes.

See

1 Cathedral of San Juan de Albacete. It was built in 1515. (updated Dec 2018) 2 Passage of Lodares. (updated Dec 2018) 3 Albacete Provincial Museum. A museum of archeology and fine art. (updated Dec 2018) 4 Plaza de Toros de Albacete (La Chata). Bullring. (updated Dec 2018)

Do

Football: Albacete Balompié play soccer in Segunda División, the second tier. Their home ground Estadio Carlos Belmonte (capacity 17,500) is near the university, 2 km south of town centre. 1 Albacete Fair. 7–17 September (updated Dec 2018)

Sleep

1 Gran Hotel Albacete, Calle Marqués de Molins, 1, ☏ +34 967 19 33 33. (updated Dec 2018)