Cádiz · Andalucía
Jerez de la Frontera
The home and heartland of sherry and Spanish brandy — an elegant, prosperous town arrayed round scores of bodegas, with a long and distinguished flamenco tradition.
What Jerez de la Frontera is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
30km inland towards Seville.
On the table. Home of sherry (an English corruption of the town's Moorish name Xerez) and Spanish brandy.
Worth the trip
- The Alcázar, built in the twelfth century by the Almohads, with a well-preserved mosque and restored gardens
- Centro Andaluz de Flamenco in the gitano quarter, Barrio de Santiago
Fiestas
- The May Horse Fair, one of the snootiest of the Andalucian ferias
- The vintage celebration towards the end of September
Who it suits: Sherry and flamenco enthusiasts
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
- 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
- €1,743/m² 21% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,242 16% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 148
- Nearest international school
- 14 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.6 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 29 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 215,025
- Born in Spain
- 93.8% 5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1 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.
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