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Olite
As gorgeous a small town as you could ever hope to stumble across, dominated by a former royal palace, unexpectedly so given its unremarkable neighbour and surrounding modern development.
What Olite is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
42km south of Pamplona.
Worth the trip
- The Palacio Real de Olite, a former royal palace
- Romanesque San Pedro and Gothic Santa María churches
Fiestas
- Fiesta del Patronales, 13-19 September
- A medieval festival on the second weekend of August leading to the 'Virgin of the Cholera' feast on 26 August, commemorating an 1885 cholera epidemic
Who it suits: Architecture travellers
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
- €16,579 14% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.4%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 41 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 49 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 33 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 89% 5% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,091
- Born in Spain
- 82.5% 6.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.2% 0.4% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.49 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.
How does Olite fit you?
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