Badajoz · Extremadura
Zafra
One of Extremadura's oldest small towns, its white-faced streets built around two rival, charming squares.
What Zafra is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
39 miles south of Mérida.
Worth the trip
- Two rival squares
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
- 9.5°C 1.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.3°C 4.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 61 days 12% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 106 49 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,002 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.6%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 11
- Nearest international school
- 64 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 135 days 25% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 83 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 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: 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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