Cádiz · Andalucía
Cádiz
Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlement and Spain's most appealing port city — sultry, laid-back, and steeped in three millennia of history.
Why people fall for Cádiz
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Founded as Gadir by the Phoenicians in 1100 BCE, on a peninsula-island surrounded almost entirely by water.
On the table. Old-school tapas bars packed to the gills with garrulous gaditanos.
Worth the trip
- A golden-domed Catedral built on 18th-century Spanish-American trade wealth
- 'La Pepa', the longest road bridge in Spain, commemorating the 1812 Constitution
- Playa de la Victoria and Playa de la Caleta beaches
- The Alameda Apodaca seafront gardens
Fiestas
- Carnaval, with a strong LGBTQ+ presence
A little history
Cádiz was one of the first towns to fall to Franco's forces and the port through which the Nationalist armies launched their invasion, yet it has always accepted its substantial LGBTQ+ community.
Who it suits: History travellers wanting Andalucía without the crowds of Málaga/Seville
Who Cádiz 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 Cádiz lands.
Good for
- Retiring couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 14.3°C average winters
- Remote-working couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 110,123 people
- Heat-averse settlers 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · mild 27.9°C summer highs
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 14.3°C average winters
- Families with school-age kids 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Budget-first coastal settlers 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 4 km from the sea · 110,123 people
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
- 14.3°C top 2% of 8,131 towns 6.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.9°C top 18% of 8,131 towns 2.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days top 21% of 8,088 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,099/m² bottom 15% of 306 towns 40% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,487 top 34% of 8,059 towns 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.1% top 49% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 65 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 10 km top 8% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.3 km top 5% 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
- 32 min top 8% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 7% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 1% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 110,123
- Born in Spain
- 95.3% 6.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.27 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 Cádiz 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 Cádiz against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 9 min from San Fernando, if that's your anchor.
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