Navarra · C. Foral De Navarra
Sangüesa
A run-down but historic pilgrim halt still boasting significant medieval monuments, its streets barely changed in centuries.
What Sangüesa is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
8km southwest of Javier.
Worth the trip
- Several churches from the fourteenth century and earlier
- Remains of a royal palace and a medieval hospital
- The seventeenth-century Palacio de Ongay Vallesantoro
A little history
Once a major pilgrim halt.
Who it suits: Camino 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
- 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
- €16,940 17% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.5%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 41 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 492 11 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 39 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 96 days 11% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 38 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 86% 7% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,876
- Born in Spain
- 84.6% 4.2% 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
- 0.82 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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