Ciudad Real · Castilla-La Mancha
Ciudad Real
The provincial capital at the heart of flat La Mancha country — a good base for excursions, with a Mudéjar gateway and a whimsical Don Quixote clock.
What Ciudad Real is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At the heart of the flat plains of La Mancha.
Worth the trip
- The Puerta de Toledo, a Mudéjar gateway fronting the only surviving fragment of the medieval walls
- The Gothic church of San Pedro, with exquisite chapels and a 15th-century alabaster retablo
- The Pza. Mayor's neo-Gothic town hall clock with mechanical figures of Cervantes, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Who it suits: Touring base for La Mancha
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.9°C 0.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.6°C 4.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 59 days 14% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.7 h/day 6% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 175 119 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,470/m² 33% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,835 9% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 102 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 83.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 151 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 76,087
- Born in Spain
- 89.4% 0.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.64 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Ciudad Real fit you?
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