Cádiz · Andalucía
Ubrique
A natural mountain fortress and former Republican Civil War stronghold turned prosperous leather-goods town, secretly producing luxury bags for Loewe, Louis Vuitton and Gucci.
Why people fall for Ubrique
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
20km southwest of Grazalema.
Worth the trip
- Unmarked leatherworking workshops around town producing bags and accessories for major luxury brands
- Shops along Avda. Dr Solis Pascual selling footwear and bags, often at bargain prices
A little history
A Republican stronghold in the Civil War; today prosperous thanks to the medieval guild craft of leatherworking.
Who it suits: Leather-goods shoppers
Who Ubrique 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 Ubrique lands.
Ubrique is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 34th and 85th 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
- 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
- €12,151 bottom 20% of 8,059 towns 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 33.4% top 14% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 40 km top 43% 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
- 49 min bottom 28% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km top 10% 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
- 80 min bottom 44% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% top 22% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 32% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,624
- Born in Spain
- 94% 5.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.42 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 Ubrique 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 Ubrique against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 75 min from Utrera, if that's your anchor.
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