Granada · Andalucía
Cádiar
The 'navel' of the Alpujarras — more attractive than it seems from a distance, springing to life with its colourful produce market.
Why people fall for Cádiar
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Just below Bérchules, in the Alpujarras.
Worth the trip
- A colourful produce market held on the 3rd and 18th of every month
Fiestas
- Fuente del Vino wine and cattle fair (Oct 5-9), when the fountain's waters literally turn to wine
Who it suits: Alpujarras road-trippers
Who Cádiar 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 Cádiar lands.
Cádiar is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 62nd and 78th 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
- 14.9°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 7.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 32.3°C bottom 25% of 8,131 towns 2.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 31 days top 1% of 8,088 towns 55% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 top 32% of 8,033 towns 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,434 bottom 12% of 8,059 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.2% top 26% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 41 km top 45% 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
- 65 min bottom 12% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km top 10% 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
- 93 min bottom 32% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 28% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% top 41% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,521
- Born in Spain
- 86.3% 2.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8% 4.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.66 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 Cádiar 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 Cádiar against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 66 min from Motril, if that's your anchor.
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