Cádiz · Andalucía
Puerto de Santa María, El
A traditional family beach resort for both gaditanos and sevillanos, an easy day-trip across the bay from Cádiz.
Why people fall for Puerto de Santa María, El
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
10km across the bay from Cádiz.
On the table. Friendly beach bars serving cheap sangría and mariscos.
Worth the trip
- Playa Puntillo, lined with villas and chalets
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Cádiz
Who Puerto de Santa María, El 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 Puerto de Santa María, El lands.
Good for
- American retirees 95th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 12.9°C average winters
- Remote-working couples 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 90,242 people
- Retiring couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · 12.9°C average winters
- Families with school-age kids 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · a hospital in town
- Budget-first coastal settlers 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 12 km from the sea · 90,242 people
- Heat-averse settlers 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 12 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
- 12.9°C top 5% of 8,131 towns 5.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.6°C bottom 49% of 8,131 towns 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days top 19% of 8,088 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.5 h/day top 1% of 3,829 towns 18% 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
- €2,496/m² bottom 35% of 306 towns 13% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,277 bottom 34% of 8,059 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.8% top 33% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 61 top 1% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 5 km top 3% 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
- 2.8 km top 12% 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
- 24 min top 4% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 26% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 18% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 90,242
- Born in Spain
- 92.7% 3.9% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.7% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 6.41 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 Puerto de Santa María, El 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 Puerto de Santa María, El against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 24 min from Cádiz, if that's your anchor.
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