Rioja, La · Rioja
Logroño
Capital of La Rioja and centre of the region's wine trade — a prosperous city with a lively old quarter boasting an unparalleled selection of excellent tapas bars.
What Logroño is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
On the Río Ebro.
On the table. An unparalleled selection of excellent tapas bars in the casco viejo, worth a considerable detour.
Worth the trip
- Calle Portales, strung with noble facades on porticoed galleries
- Calles de Laurel and San Juan, with bars, restaurants and lively atmosphere
- The Concatedral Santa María de la Redonda, with a Churrigueresque twin-towered facade
- Museo de la Rioja, telling the story of the region without the wine, in the Baroque Espartero Palace
Fiestas
- Fiestas San Bernabé, June
- Fiesta de San Mateo, September, coinciding with the grape harvest
A little history
Before the wine trade brought prosperity, the town owed its importance for some six centuries to the Camino de Santiago.
Who it suits: Tapas crawlers · Wine-region base
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
- 7.5°C 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.6 h/day 9% 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
- €1,892/m² 14% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €16,125 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 115
- Nearest international school
- 1 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 63 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
- 151,681
- Born in Spain
- 82.4% 6.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.49 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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