Araba/Álava · País Vasco
Labastida
A border hilltop town given over entirely to viticulture, aiming to become the vineyard capital of Rioja Alavesa.
What Labastida is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Perched on a rocky peak on the Álava/Rioja provincial border, in the Rioja Alavesa wine country near Haro.
On the table. Dedicated to viticulture, at the heart of the Rioja Alavesa wine region.
Worth the trip
- Blazoned wine-trade houses lining Calle Frontín
- The old La Mota district, leading to the 12th-century Hermitage of Santo Cristo with views over the La Rioja plain
Who it suits: Wine-country road-trippers
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°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.8°C 1.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 82 days 20% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,640 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 34 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 482 1 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 64 days 41% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 49 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 92% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,573
- Born in Spain
- 86.3% 2.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.2% 1.6% below 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.
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