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Olite
As gorgeous a small town as you could ever hope to stumble across, dominated by a former royal palace, unexpectedly so given its unremarkable neighbour and surrounding modern development.
Why people fall for Olite
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
42km south of Pamplona.
Worth the trip
- The Palacio Real de Olite, a former royal palace
- Romanesque San Pedro and Gothic Santa María churches
Fiestas
- Fiesta del Patronales, 13-19 September
- A medieval festival on the second weekend of August leading to the 'Virgin of the Cholera' feast on 26 August, commemorating an 1885 cholera epidemic
Who it suits: Architecture travellers
Who Olite 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 Olite lands.
Probably not for
- Retiring couples 20th percentile of 8,132 towns weakest factor: close to a hospital
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
- 6.8°C bottom 45% of 8,131 towns 1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.9°C top 32% of 8,131 towns 1.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 93 days bottom 14% of 8,088 towns 35% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.2 h/day bottom 11% of 3,829 towns 15% 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
- €16,579 top 20% of 8,059 towns 14% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.4% top 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2 top 26% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 41 km top 45% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 #6 of 17 regions, +13 vs national 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 49 min bottom 27% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.3 km top 19% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days #9 of 17 regions, −7 days vs national 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 33 min top 9% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% bottom 45% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% bottom 36% of 8,132 towns 5% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,091
- Born in Spain
- 82.5% 6.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.2% 0.4% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.49 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 Olite 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 Olite against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 54 min from Pamplona/Iruña, if that's your anchor.
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