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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.
Living in Logroño
Logroño is the prosperous capital of La Rioja — a city of 152,000 on the Ebro whose great pleasure is eating and drinking, its casco viejo packed with an unrivalled run of tapas bars along Calle Laurel and San Juan. It grew up on the Camino de Santiago before wine brought wealth, and remains an easy, liveable city, most residents Spanish-born with large Colombian, Romanian and Pakistani communities. The climate is Ebro-valley continental: warm summers around 30°C, cool winters near 7°C. It has its own hospital, an airport an hour away, and the whole Rioja wine region on its doorstep.
Logroño's Spainability Scores — by who's moving
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities. Each score is Logroño's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 75% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
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. A strong pick for a retiring couple — a hospital in town and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 7.5°C
- Drive to a hospital 0 min
- Surgical wait (region) 78 days
- Registered long-let rent €6.44/m²·mo
Higher than 75% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
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. A strong pick for American retirees — a hospital in town and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 7.5°C
- Drive to a hospital 0 min
- U.S.-born residents 1.49 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €6.44/m²·mo
Higher than 47% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
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. A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — a hospital in town and 151,681 people.
- Schools in town 115
- PISA maths (region) 493
- Registered long-let rent €6.44/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 0 min
Higher than 45% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
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. A strong pick for a remote-working couple — 151,681 people and a hospital in town.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 100%
- Drive to nearest airport 63 min
- Registered long-let rent €6.44/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 30.5°C
Higher than 38% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
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. A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — a hospital in town and 151,681 people.
- Registered long-let rent €6.44/m²·mo
- Net income per person €16,125
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 30.5°C
Higher than 35% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
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. A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — a hospital in town and a real food scene.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 30.5°C
- Rainy days a year 70 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 32
- Winter average temp 7.5°C
What is the climate like in Logroño?
Logroño's reported winter average is 7.5°C, while July–August highs reach 30.5°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.5°C top 43% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C top 49% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days bottom 37% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.6 h/day bottom 20% of 3,829 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 0.08 ha/km² bottom 49% of 8,132 towns 2.23 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 2 bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 4 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 26.3% bottom 15% of 8,130 towns 3.4% above the Spanish average (22.9%)
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How good is healthcare in Logroño?
Logroño's nearest health centre is 0.3 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 0 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 0.3 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days #4 of 17 regions, −25 days vs national 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Logroño?
Logroño has 115 schools in town; the nearest international school is 1 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 115 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 1 km top 1% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 #5 of 17 regions, +14 vs national 12 above the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Logroño?
Logroño's reported home price is €1,892/m², while registered long-let rent is €6.44/m²·mo.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,892/m² appraisal (valor tasado) top 45% of 306 towns 14% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €6.44/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €5.11/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €7.92/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- 4.08% bottom 44% of 306 towns
- Net income per person
- €16,125 top 25% of 8,059 towns 11% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 19.9% bottom 18% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Logroño?
Spanish is the only region-wide official language in La Rioja, and Spanish-medium teaching is the public-school default. Individual bilingual and international programmes can use other languages, so check the specific school. See the La Rioja region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Logroño?
Logroño's reported population is 151,681.
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
How easy is it to get around Logroño?
Logroño is a reported 63 min drive from the nearest airport, with 99% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 63 min top 39% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 5% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 9% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Numbers: Spainability town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Registered long-let rent is SERPAVI declared-contract data; its p25–p75 values show the observed band. Registered-rent yield is gross, excludes costs and is never imputed. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Logroño 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 Logroño against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 66 min from Vitoria-Gasteiz, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Logroño for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Request recent comparable sales before relying on the appraisal figure.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
- Ask an insurer how the mapped flood or wildfire exposure affects cover.
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