Jaén · Andalucía
Úbeda
A World Heritage-listed casco antiguo where beautiful Renaissance buildings grace almost every street — one of the few places in Andalucía with stunning architecture not built by the Moors.
What Úbeda is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet, the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
9km east of Baeza, built on the same escarpment overlooking the Guadalquivir valley.
On the table. Top-class restaurants and tapas bars.
Worth the trip
- Plaza de Vázquez de Molina, a tremendous Renaissance square, one of the most impressive of its kind on the peninsula
- The Palacio de las Cadenas, with a facade fronted by monumental lions
- Capilla del Salvador, a masterpiece with a dazzling Plateresque facade by Vandelvira/Diego de Siloé
A little history
Úbeda's aristocratic lions jockeyed for influence at the Habsburg court in the 16th century; Francisco de los Cobos y Molina became state secretary to King Carlos I.
Who it suits: Renaissance-architecture travellers · Jewish-heritage travellers
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
- €939/m² 57% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,868 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.9%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 26
- Nearest international school
- 50 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.8 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 119 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
- 33,605
- Born in Spain
- 94.8% 6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.8% 3.1% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.24 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 Úbeda fit you?
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