Jaén · Andalucía
Úbeda
A World Heritage-listed casco antiguo where beautiful Renaissance buildings grace almost every street — one of the few places in Andalucía with stunning architecture not built by the Moors.
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Why people fall for Úbeda
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
9km east of Baeza, built on the same escarpment overlooking the Guadalquivir valley.
On the table. Top-class restaurants and tapas bars.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de Vázquez de Molina, a tremendous Renaissance square, one of the most impressive of its kind on the peninsula
- The Palacio de las Cadenas, with a facade fronted by monumental lions
- Capilla del Salvador, a masterpiece with a dazzling Plateresque facade by Vandelvira/Diego de Siloé
A little history
Úbeda's aristocratic lions jockeyed for influence at the Habsburg court in the 16th century; Francisco de los Cobos y Molina became state secretary to King Carlos I.
Who it suits: Renaissance-architecture travellers · Jewish-heritage travellers
Who Úbeda 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 Úbeda lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns low housing cost (~€939/m²) · 33,605 people
- Families with school-age kids 91st percentile of 8,132 towns homes around €939/m² · 33,605 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 91st percentile of 8,132 towns homes around €939/m² · 33,605 people
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
- 10.2°C top 22% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.7°C bottom 16% of 8,131 towns 3.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days top 31% of 8,088 towns 19% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 top 27% of 8,033 towns 33 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €939/m² top 5% of 306 towns 57% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,868 bottom 28% of 8,059 towns 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.9% bottom 49% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 26 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 50 km bottom 45% 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
- 4.8 km top 22% 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
- 119 min bottom 14% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 21% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 23% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 33,605
- Born in Spain
- 94.8% 6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.8% 3.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.24 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 Úbeda 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 Úbeda against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 41 min from Linares, if that's your anchor.
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