Albacete Voyage Tips and guide

Albacete is a city and municipality of 173,000 people (2018) in Castile-La Mancha. Albacete has a reputation as producer of clasp knives.

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.

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

• 38.948333-1.8633331 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)

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.

Map of Albacete

• 38.995728-1.8562021 Cathedral of San Juan de Albacete. It was built in 1515. (updated Dec 2018)
• 38.993234-1.8558052 Passage of Lodares. (updated Dec 2018)
• 38.986442-1.8558973 Albacete Provincial Museum. A museum of archeology and fine art. (updated Dec 2018)
• 38.9975-1.8636114 Plaza de Toros de Albacete (La Chata). Bullring. (updated Dec 2018)

• 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.
• 38.997191-1.8704041 Albacete Fair. 7–17 September (updated Dec 2018)

• 38.9944-1.85391 Gran Hotel Albacete, Calle Marqués de Molins, 1, ☏ +34 967 19 33 33. (updated Dec 2018)