Cádiz · Andalucía
Castellar de la Frontera
A bizarre village enclosed within the walls of an isolated thirteenth-century Moorish castle, whole population relocated in 1971, turning the castle settlement into a restored ghost village.
Why people fall for Castellar de la Frontera
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
27km north of Algeciras, the first White Town on the route from the coast.
Worth the trip
- The castle walls enclosing much of the restored old village, now with a couple of bars and places to stay
A little history
Its population was moved downriver in 1971 to the 'new' town of Nuevo Castellar, turning the castle settlement into a ghost village.
Who it suits: Off-beat White Towns travellers
Who Castellar de la Frontera 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 Castellar de la Frontera lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 22 km from the sea · mild 25.1°C summer highs
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
- 13.9°C top 3% of 8,131 towns 6.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 57 days top 35% of 8,088 towns 16% 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
- €11,608 bottom 14% of 8,059 towns 20% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.7% top 28% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 14 km top 13% 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
- 30 min top 43% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 13 km bottom 29% 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
- 94 min bottom 30% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 91% top 46% of 8,132 towns 12% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 34% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,996
- Born in Spain
- 92.5% 3.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.1% 0.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.34 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 Castellar de la Frontera 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 Castellar de la Frontera against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 32 min from Línea de la Concepción, La, if that's your anchor.
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