Ciudad Real · Castilla-La Mancha
Ciudad Real
The provincial capital at the heart of flat La Mancha country — a good base for excursions, with a Mudéjar gateway and a whimsical Don Quixote clock.
Why people fall for Ciudad Real
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At the heart of the flat plains of La Mancha.
Worth the trip
- The Puerta de Toledo, a Mudéjar gateway fronting the only surviving fragment of the medieval walls
- The Gothic church of San Pedro, with exquisite chapels and a 15th-century alabaster retablo
- The Pza. Mayor's neo-Gothic town hall clock with mechanical figures of Cervantes, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Who it suits: Touring base for La Mancha
Who Ciudad Real 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 Ciudad Real lands.
Probably not for
- Heat-averse settlers 24th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: on/near the sea
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
- 7.9°C top 39% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.6°C bottom 10% of 8,131 towns 4.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 59 days top 40% of 8,088 towns 14% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.7 h/day top 33% of 3,829 towns 6% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 175 bottom 5% of 8,033 towns 119 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,470/m² top 25% of 306 towns 33% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,835 top 30% of 8,059 towns 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.7% bottom 30% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 102 km bottom 12% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 #14 of 17 regions, −15 vs national 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 83.5 km bottom 2% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days #8 of 17 regions, −11 days vs national 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 151 min bottom 3% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 7% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 76,087
- Born in Spain
- 89.4% 0.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.64 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 Ciudad Real 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 Ciudad Real against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 99 min from Toledo, if that's your anchor.
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