Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Sangüesa
A run-down but historic pilgrim halt still boasting significant medieval monuments, its streets barely changed in centuries.
Why people fall for Sangüesa
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
8km southwest of Javier.
Worth the trip
- Several churches from the fourteenth century and earlier
- Remains of a royal palace and a medieval hospital
- The seventeenth-century Palacio de Ongay Vallesantoro
A little history
Once a major pilgrim halt.
Who it suits: Camino history travellers
Who Sangüesa 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 Sangüesa lands.
Sangüesa is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 33rd and 81st 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
- 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
- €16,940 top 16% of 8,059 towns 17% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.5% top 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% 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
- 39 min bottom 41% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.2 km top 5% 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
- 38 min top 12% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 86% bottom 39% of 8,132 towns 7% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% bottom 48% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,876
- Born in Spain
- 84.6% 4.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.82 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 Sangüesa 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 Sangüesa against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 40 min from Pamplona/Iruña, if that's your anchor.
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