Cádiz · Andalucía
Cádiz
Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlement and Spain's most appealing port city — sultry, laid-back, and steeped in three millennia of history.
What Cádiz is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
Founded as Gadir by the Phoenicians in 1100 BCE, on a peninsula-island surrounded almost entirely by water.
On the table. Old-school tapas bars packed to the gills with garrulous gaditanos.
Worth the trip
- A golden-domed Catedral built on 18th-century Spanish-American trade wealth
- 'La Pepa', the longest road bridge in Spain, commemorating the 1812 Constitution
- Playa de la Victoria and Playa de la Caleta beaches
- The Alameda Apodaca seafront gardens
Fiestas
- Carnaval, with a strong LGBTQ+ presence
A little history
Cádiz was one of the first towns to fall to Franco's forces and the port through which the Nationalist armies launched their invasion, yet it has always accepted its substantial LGBTQ+ community.
Who it suits: History travellers wanting Andalucía without the crowds of Málaga/Seville
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
- 14.3°C 6.5°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.9°C 2.3°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 26% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,099/m² 40% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €15,487 7% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 65
- Nearest international school
- 10 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 32 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 110,123
- Born in Spain
- 95.3% 6.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.1% 2.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.27 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 Cádiz fit you?
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