Cádiz · Andalucía
Arcos de la Frontera
A White Town perched on a rocky spur that invites a journey back in time — Michelin rates it worth a detour (2 stars).
What Arcos de la Frontera is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Coming from Jerez, one is struck by the beauty of the place.
Worth the trip
- The Church of Santa María de la Asunción, built around 1530 on the site of the former great mosque, with a Plateresque facade and a 17th-century retable of the Assumption
- Plaza del Cabildo, with the town hall, parador and castle, and a terrace view over the valley
Who it suits: White-towns road-trippers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 12.4°C 4.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.2°C 4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 53 days 23% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 8.4 h/day 15% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 9 47 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,263/m² 43% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €10,607 27% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 33%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24
- Nearest international school
- 33 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 36 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 34 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 31,281
- Born in Spain
- 95.6% 6.8% 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
- 0.67 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Arcos de la Frontera fit you?
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