Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Javier
A place of pilgrimage in its own right — St Francis Xavier, patron saint of Navarra, was born in its redoubtable castle in 1506.
What Javier is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
5km south of Yesa.
Worth the trip
- Castillo de Javier, an absorbing museum dedicated to the saint's life, in a castle originally built as a Moorish stronghold in the ninth century
A little history
St Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary and patron saint of Navarra, was born here in 1506, travelled all over the Far East, and died in China in 1552.
Who it suits: Religious pilgrims
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
- 6.8°C 1°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.9°C 1.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 93 days 35% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.2 h/day 15% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €20,323 40% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- no local data
Schools
- Schools in town
- 0
- Nearest international school
- 45 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 46 min
- Nearest health centre
- 6.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 45 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 80% 1% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 80% 4% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 103
- Born in Spain
- 80.6% 8.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.9% 0.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 Javier fit you?
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