Cádiz · Andalucía
Grazalema
A striking white village at the centre of its namesake natural park, and one of the most interesting villages on the White Towns circuit.
Why people fall for Grazalema
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
23km from Ronda; the Puerto de las Palomas pass, Andalucía's second-highest at 1350m, rears up behind the village.
Worth the trip
- The Church of San Juan's street layout and bell tower survive from Arab occupation
- The Puerto de las Palomas walk, with griffon vultures and possible sightings of the Spanish ibex
Who it suits: Hikers and naturalists
Who Grazalema 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 Grazalema lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 54 km from the sea · a real food scene
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
- 8°C top 38% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.4°C top 34% of 8,131 towns 0.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 71 days bottom 34% of 8,088 towns 3% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 9 top 12% of 8,033 towns 47 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,182 bottom 10% of 8,059 towns 23% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32.2% top 18% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 45 km top 49% 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
- 42 min bottom 37% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 11.8 km bottom 34% 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
- 81 min bottom 43% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 4% of 8,132 towns 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 14% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,987
- Born in Spain
- 95.7% 6.9% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.1% 1.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.51 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 Grazalema 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 Grazalema against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 78 min from Utrera, if that's your anchor.
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