Badajoz · Extremadura
Jerez de los Caballeros
A quiet, spire-studded old walled town that many tourists pass through but few stay in, born of an 18th-century church-building spree.
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Why people fall for Jerez de los Caballeros
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
On the parched southern Extremadura landscape between Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier.
Worth the trip
- San Miguel's carved-brick tower on the central Pza. de España
- San Bartolomé's red-, blue- and ochre-glazed tiled tower on the hill above, with a striking tiled facade
- Santa Catalina's tower outside the walls
A little history
A passion for building spires gripped the eighteenth century, when three of the town's churches had new towers erected.
Who Jerez de los Caballeros 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 los Caballeros lands.
Jerez de los Caballeros is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 34th and 71st 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
- 9.5°C top 26% of 8,131 towns 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.3°C bottom 13% of 8,131 towns 4.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 61 days top 44% of 8,088 towns 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 bottom 23% of 8,033 towns 17 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,344 bottom 22% of 8,059 towns 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.5% top 40% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7 top 9% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 59 km bottom 37% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 #12 of 17 regions, −10 vs national 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 48 min bottom 29% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 3.1 km top 13% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days #14 of 17 regions, +32 days vs national 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 72 min top 48% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 80% bottom 28% of 8,132 towns 1% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 81% bottom 23% of 8,132 towns 2% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 9,104
- Born in Spain
- 95.5% 6.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.6% 3.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 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 los Caballeros 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 los Caballeros against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 69 min from Badajoz, if that's your anchor.
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