Badajoz · Extremadura
Zafra
One of Extremadura's oldest small towns, its white-faced streets built around two rival, charming squares.
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Why people fall for Zafra
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
39 miles south of Mérida.
Worth the trip
- Two rival squares
Who Zafra 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 Zafra lands.
Zafra is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 47th and 86th 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
- 106 bottom 17% of 8,033 towns 49 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,002 bottom 30% of 8,059 towns 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6% bottom 47% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 11 top 6% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 64 km bottom 33% 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
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 3.3 km top 14% 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
- 83 min bottom 41% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% top 26% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 30% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 16,708
- Born in Spain
- 92.8% 4% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.2% 2.6% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.66 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 Zafra 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 Zafra against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 79 min from Badajoz, if that's your anchor.
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