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Living in La Rioja
La Rioja sits between Spain's extremes on climate: winters near 6.8°C, summer highs around 29.3°C, and roughly 77 rainy days a year. Summer water stress reads WEI+ 32 against a national 56.
Overview
On the wallet: homes run about €1,892/m² (7% below the national average (€2,024/m²)); median net income is about €15,727 per person (10% above the national average (€14,279)).
Public healthcare here means a mean surgical wait around 78 days (24% below the national average (103 days)), with 6.4% of the surgical list waiting over six months — a real, published number, not a brochure claim.
We publish 6 of La Rioja's 174 municipalities in depth so far — the ones with a full guide portrait to sit alongside the numbers, weighted toward the milder-summer north. Every figure below is shown against the national reference, gaps included.
The numbers for La Rioja
Region-level data, each figure against the national reference. Where a figure is a comunidad-autónoma reading rather than a town measurement, we say so under the card.
Climate
- Winter average
- 6.8°C 1 °C below the national average (7.8°C)
- Summer high
- 29.3°C 0.9 °C below the national average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 77 days 12% above the national average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.7 h/day 8% below the national average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- 32 24 points below the national average (56)
Aggregated from the region's municipalities (AEMET/derived); summer water stress is a river-basin (WEI+) reading.
Schools
- PISA maths
- 493 14 points above the national average (479)
- PISA reading
- 487 9 points above the national average (478)
- PISA science
- 500 11 points above the national average (489)
PISA 2022, reported per comunidad autónoma (INEE). National reference = the mean across the 17 comunidades.
Healthcare
- Surgical wait
- 78 days 24% below the national average (103 days)
- Waiting over 6 months
- 6.4% 10.2 pts below the national average (16.6%)
- Specialist consult wait
- 32 days 66% below the national average (95 days)
Public waiting lists, SISLE-SNS Dic 2025 (2025-12-31), per comunidad autónoma.
Cost & economy
- Median net income / person
- €15,727 10% above the national average (€14,279)
- Median home price
- €1,892/m² 7% below the national average (€2,024/m²)
Median across the region's municipalities (INE net income; Catastro-derived sale price).
Who lives here
- Born in Spain
- 87.5% 1.3 pts below the national average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.4% 0.6 pts above the national average (3.8%)
Share of residents by place of birth, averaged across the region's municipalities (INE).
Town profiles in La Rioja
We profile 6 of La Rioja's 174 municipalities in depth — numbers plus an honest portrait. More as we cover them.
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