Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Pamplona
A robust, visceral place with a rough-hewn edge and a strong streak of macho self-confidence — a Navarran capital combining rich history and a youthful, buzzing bar scene, world-famous for the Running of the Bulls.
What Pamplona is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
A fortress town defending the northern approaches to Spain at the foothills of the Pyrenees, taking its name from Roman general Pompey.
On the table. At Cafe Iruña, you might expect former regular Ernest Hemingway to swing through the doors at any moment.
Worth the trip
- The Casco Antiguo, centred on Pza. del Castillo
- Catedral de Santa María, basically Gothic despite an 18th-century facade, with the tomb of Carlos III
- Museo de Navarra, with a Roman mosaic floor and Goya's portrait of the Marqués de San Adrián
- The city walls overlooking the Río Arga
Fiestas
- Fiestas de San Fermín (Running of the Bulls), early July
A little history
It later became capital of Navarra — often a semi-autonomous state — and an important stop on the Camino de Santiago.
Who it suits: San Fermín festival-goers · Hemingway literary 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
- 6.9°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28°C 2.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 99 days 44% 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
- €2,737/m² 24% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €17,247 19% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 107
- Nearest international school
- 1 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 0.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 13 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 209,676
- Born in Spain
- 77.4% 11.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.87 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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