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Calahorra
One of the most important cities in Roman Spain, known then as Calagurris, today known as the 'city of vegetables' for its fertile flood plains.
Why people fall for Calahorra
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the Cidacos river.
On the table. Known as the 'city of vegetables' thanks to its fertile flood plains.
Worth the trip
- Remains of the original Roman walls
- A first-century Roman villa, La Clinica
- Evidence of the Roman circus
A little history
Known to the Romans as Calagurris, it was one of the most important cities in Roman Spain.
Who it suits: Roman-history travellers
Who Calahorra is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Calahorra lands.
Calahorra is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 63rd and 89th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.5°C top 43% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C top 49% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days bottom 37% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.6 h/day bottom 20% of 3,829 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,348 bottom 35% of 8,059 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.2% bottom 15% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 12 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 44 km top 48% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 #5 of 17 regions, +14 vs national 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.4 km top 6% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days #4 of 17 regions, −25 days vs national 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 74 min top 50% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 28% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 23% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 25,292
- Born in Spain
- 74.6% 14.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.36 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Calahorra fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Calahorra against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 40 min from Logroño, if that's your anchor.
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