Rioja, La · Rioja
Logroño
Capital of La Rioja and centre of the region's wine trade — a prosperous city with a lively old quarter boasting an unparalleled selection of excellent tapas bars.
Why people fall for Logroño
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
On the Río Ebro.
On the table. An unparalleled selection of excellent tapas bars in the casco viejo, worth a considerable detour.
Worth the trip
- Calle Portales, strung with noble facades on porticoed galleries
- Calles de Laurel and San Juan, with bars, restaurants and lively atmosphere
- The Concatedral Santa María de la Redonda, with a Churrigueresque twin-towered facade
- Museo de la Rioja, telling the story of the region without the wine, in the Baroque Espartero Palace
Fiestas
- Fiestas San Bernabé, June
- Fiesta de San Mateo, September, coinciding with the grape harvest
A little history
Before the wine trade brought prosperity, the town owed its importance for some six centuries to the Camino de Santiago.
Who it suits: Tapas crawlers · Wine-region base
Who Logroño 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 Logroño lands.
Good for
- American retirees 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · a health centre close by
- Families with school-age kids 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 151,681 people
- Retiring couples 91st percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · a health centre close by
- Remote-working couples 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 151,681 people · a hospital in town
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
- 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
- €1,892/m² top 45% of 306 towns 14% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,125 top 25% of 8,059 towns 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.9% bottom 18% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 115 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 1 km top 1% 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
- 0.3 km top 1% 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
- 63 min top 39% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 5% 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
- 151,681
- Born in Spain
- 82.4% 6.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.49 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 Logroño 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 Logroño against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 66 min from Vitoria-Gasteiz, if that's your anchor.
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