Cádiz · Andalucía
Puerto de Santa María, El
A traditional family beach resort for both gaditanos and sevillanos, an easy day-trip across the bay from Cádiz.
What Puerto de Santa María, El is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
10km across the bay from Cádiz.
On the table. Friendly beach bars serving cheap sangría and mariscos.
Worth the trip
- Playa Puntillo, lined with villas and chalets
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Cádiz
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
- 12.9°C 5.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.6°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.5 h/day 18% 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
- €2,496/m² 13% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €13,277 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 61
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 24 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 90,242
- Born in Spain
- 92.7% 3.9% 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
- 6.41 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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