Cádiz · Andalucía
Jerez de la Frontera
The home and heartland of sherry and Spanish brandy — an elegant, prosperous town arrayed round scores of bodegas, with a long and distinguished flamenco tradition.
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Why people fall for Jerez de la Frontera
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
30km inland towards Seville.
On the table. Home of sherry (an English corruption of the town's Moorish name Xerez) and Spanish brandy.
Worth the trip
- The Alcázar, built in the twelfth century by the Almohads, with a well-preserved mosque and restored gardens
- Centro Andaluz de Flamenco in the gitano quarter, Barrio de Santiago
Fiestas
- The May Horse Fair, one of the snootiest of the Andalucian ferias
- The vintage celebration towards the end of September
Who it suits: Sherry and flamenco enthusiasts
Who Jerez 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 Jerez de la Frontera lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 215,025 people · a hospital in town
- Retiring couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 12.4°C average winters
- Budget-first coastal settlers 94th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 215,025 people
- American retirees 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 12.4°C average winters
- Families with school-age kids 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 33 km from the sea · a hospital in town
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
- 12.4°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 4.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.2°C bottom 13% of 8,131 towns 4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 53 days top 23% of 8,088 towns 23% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.4 h/day top 4% of 3,829 towns 15% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 9 top 12% of 8,033 towns 47 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,743/m² top 39% of 306 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,242 bottom 21% of 8,059 towns 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.6% top 29% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 148 top 1% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 4.6 km top 21% 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
- 29 min top 6% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 13% of 8,132 towns 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 12% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 215,025
- Born in Spain
- 93.8% 5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1 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 Jerez 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 Jerez de la Frontera against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 43 min from Puerto de Santa María, El, if that's your anchor.
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