Granada · Andalucía
Cádiar
The 'navel' of the Alpujarras — more attractive than it seems from a distance, springing to life with its colourful produce market.
What Cádiar is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Just below Bérchules, in the Alpujarras.
Worth the trip
- A colourful produce market held on the 3rd and 18th of every month
Fiestas
- Fuente del Vino wine and cattle fair (Oct 5-9), when the fountain's waters literally turn to wine
Who it suits: Alpujarras 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
- 14.9°C 7.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 32.3°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 31 days 55% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,434 21% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.2%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 43.1 per 1,000 about the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 41 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 65 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.4 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 93 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,521
- Born in Spain
- 86.3% 2.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8% 4.1% above 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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