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A new place. A new chapter. Guadalajara and Madrid Source: GooferPlaces, Guadalajara and Madrid, based on Eurostat — Annual net earnings (earn_nt_net) ; Eurostat — Price level indices, household final consumption (tec00120 / prc_ppp_ind_1) ; Eurostat — Main national accounts tax aggregates (gov_10a_taxag) ; NASA POWER — climatology (T2M temperature; PRECTOTCORR precipitation) ; Climate normals 1991-2020 (WMO / national meteorological services, via Wikipedia climate tables) ; Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana — SERPAVI (Sistema Estatal de Referencia del Precio del Alquiler de Vivienda), municipal median €/m²/month ; Eurostat — Electricity prices for household consumers (nrg_pc_204) ; World Bank — GNI per capita, PPP (NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD) ; World Bank — PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3) ; EEA — European city air quality ranking, annual mean PM2.5 (2-year mean) ; Eurostat — Police-recorded offences by category (crim_off_cat) ; EFEHR / ESHM20 — European Seismic Hazard Model 2020 ; Eurostat — Life expectancy at birth (tps00205 / demo_mlexpec) ; ILO — Average gross monthly earnings of employees ; Documented public-transport provision ordinal (rapid-transit systems + city size); OpenStreetMap coastline — derived distance to sea ; Derived distance to mountains (>1500 m), from public elevation/peak data ; Eurostat — Broadband internet coverage by technology (isoc_cbt) ; Eurostat — Number of foreign languages known, self-reported (edat_aes_l21) ; OurAirports — airport locations ; GeoNames geographical database — global city identity fallback ; NASA POWER — climatology (T2M temperature; PRECTOTCORR precipitation) ; World Bank HCI+ education pillar (2025) . Observation dates: 1991-2020, 2001-2020, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2023-2024, 2024, 2025, 2025-S1, 2026-08, 2026-08-30, 2026-09-20, climatology. https://gooferplaces.com/compare-cities?city=guadalajara-es&with=madrid
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