Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Tudela
A thousand-year-old town at the heart of La Ribera, its old town a jumble of cobbled lanes little changed since 1119.
What Tudela is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the banks of the Ebro, 90km south of Pamplona.
Worth the trip
- The thirteenth-century Puente Sobre over the Ebro
- The twelfth-century Gothic Catedral with impressive Romanesque cloisters and primitive carvings
A little history
Alfonso I of Aragón ended the Moorish occupation of the city in 1119.
Who it suits: History 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
- 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 estimated
- 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
- €1,591/m² 28% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,768 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 21
- Nearest international school
- 77 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 38,773
- Born in Spain
- 73.1% 15.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.7% 1.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.46 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 Tudela fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Tudela against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 64 min from Pamplona/Iruña, if that's your anchor.
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