Araba/Álava · País Vasco
Labastida
A border hilltop town given over entirely to viticulture, aiming to become the vineyard capital of Rioja Alavesa.
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Why people fall for Labastida
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Perched on a rocky peak on the Álava/Rioja provincial border, in the Rioja Alavesa wine country near Haro.
On the table. Dedicated to viticulture, at the heart of the Rioja Alavesa wine region.
Worth the trip
- Blazoned wine-trade houses lining Calle Frontín
- The old La Mota district, leading to the 12th-century Hermitage of Santo Cristo with views over the La Rioja plain
Who it suits: Wine-country road-trippers
Who Labastida 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 Labastida lands.
Labastida is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 71st and 83rd 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°C bottom 47% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.8°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 82 days bottom 22% of 8,088 towns 20% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- 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
- €14,640 top 45% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.3% bottom 46% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 34 km top 37% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 #9 of 17 regions, +3 vs national 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min top 18% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days #2 of 17 regions, −39 days vs national 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 49 min top 23% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% top 39% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 92% bottom 46% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,573
- Born in Spain
- 86.3% 2.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Labastida 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 Labastida against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 44 min from Vitoria-Gasteiz, if that's your anchor.
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