Jaén · Andalucía
Jaén
An uneventful provincial capital with traces of its Moorish past in its winding old quarter and the largest surviving Moorish baths in Spain.
What Jaén is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Overlooked by the Cerro de Santa Catalina, a wooded hill topped by a restored Moorish fort.
Worth the trip
- The largest surviving Moorish baths in Spain
- A restored Moorish fort atop Cerro de Santa Catalina, now partly a spectacular parador
Who it suits: Parador seekers
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
- 10.2°C 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.7°C 3.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days 19% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 33 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,444/m² 35% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,569 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.2%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 98
- Nearest international school
- 7 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 71 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 96% 17% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 112,119
- Born in Spain
- 93.1% 4.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.6% 3.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.51 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 Jaén fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Jaén against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 43 min from Linares, if that's your anchor.
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