Ciudad Real · Castilla-La Mancha
Valdepeñas
A colourful wine capital still largely undetected by international tourists, its love of vino visible everywhere: oak barrels in the taverns, colossal Roman-era ceramic wine vats along the avenues, and labyrinthine cellars beneath the town.
What Valdepeñas is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
In the Ciudad Real province of La Mancha.
On the table. One of Spain's biggest wine-producing valleys, with viticulture tracing back to the 7th-century-BCE Iberian settlement of Cerro de las Cabezas.
Worth the trip
- Oak barrels and colossal tinajas (Roman-era ceramic wine vats) lining the streets
- Labyrinthine wine cellars beneath the town
Fiestas
- An annual harvest and wine festival at summer's close, where locals invite visitors to get 'kissed by wine'
A little history
Vestiges of grapevine were unearthed 7km south of town in the ruins of the 7th-century-BCE Iberian settlement of Cerro de las Cabezas.
Who it suits: Wine lovers
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
- 7.2°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 35.4°C 5.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 55 days 20% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 175 119 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €893/m² 60% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,422 14% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 117 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 464 17 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 59.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 92 days 15% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 147 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 93% 14% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,698
- Born in Spain
- 88.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 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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