Ciudad Real · Castilla-La Mancha
Valdepeñas
A colourful wine capital still largely undetected by international tourists, its love of vino visible everywhere: oak barrels in the taverns, colossal Roman-era ceramic wine vats along the avenues, and labyrinthine cellars beneath the town.
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Why people fall for Valdepeñas
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
In the Ciudad Real province of La Mancha.
On the table. One of Spain's biggest wine-producing valleys, with viticulture tracing back to the 7th-century-BCE Iberian settlement of Cerro de las Cabezas.
Worth the trip
- Oak barrels and colossal tinajas (Roman-era ceramic wine vats) lining the streets
- Labyrinthine wine cellars beneath the town
Fiestas
- An annual harvest and wine festival at summer's close, where locals invite visitors to get 'kissed by wine'
A little history
Vestiges of grapevine were unearthed 7km south of town in the ruins of the 7th-century-BCE Iberian settlement of Cerro de las Cabezas.
Who it suits: Wine lovers
Who Valdepeñas 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 Valdepeñas lands.
Valdepeñas is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 32nd and 82nd 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
- 7.2°C top 48% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35.4°C bottom 3% of 8,131 towns 5.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 55 days top 29% of 8,088 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 175 bottom 5% of 8,033 towns 119 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €893/m² top 4% of 306 towns 60% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,422 bottom 23% of 8,059 towns 14% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.9% bottom 38% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 117 km bottom 7% 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
- 59.6 km bottom 4% 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
- 147 min bottom 4% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 93% top 36% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 28% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,698
- Born in Spain
- 88.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 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 Valdepeñas 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 Valdepeñas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 55 min from Ciudad Real, if that's your anchor.
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