Jaén · Andalucía
Baeza
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it.
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Why people fall for Baeza
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Worth the trip
- The Pza. Mayor, comprising two linked plazas flanked by cafés
Who Baeza is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Baeza lands.
Baeza is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 36th and 74th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 10.2°C top 22% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.7°C bottom 16% of 8,131 towns 3.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days top 31% of 8,088 towns 19% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 top 27% of 8,033 towns 33 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,817 bottom 16% of 8,059 towns 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4% bottom 35% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 34 km top 37% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min bottom 35% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 6.2 km top 31% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 99 min bottom 26% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 33% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 35% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 15,567
- Born in Spain
- 95.3% 6.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. 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.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Baeza 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 Baeza against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Linares, if that's your anchor.
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