Chiclana de la Frontera

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratingswinter liveabilityA 1-to-5 score of whether a town lives from November to March. Computed from state data: how many cafés, hotels and shops operate in January compared with the summer peak.Why it matters. Most resorts shut for winter. Tourists never notice; someone who moved gets four empty months. A few villages inside another municipality have no state figure of their own — there the score is our estimate, and it is labelled so. for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.

Average sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 5.4 km from the centre.

Tourist load

Chiclana de la Frontera has 2 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 3 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 2 were graded excellent. No beach here has been graded “poor” since testing began in 1990.

The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.

Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 1 079 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 880 € for a two-bedroom.

The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.

Where from: SERPAVISERPAVIThe Ministry of Housing's public registry of rents: medians of actual signed leases by municipality.Why it matters. Asking rent and signed rent are different things: an advert is today's price, while the registry also holds old leases whose rent has not moved in years. The registry shows what people actually pay., Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Chiclana de la Frontera

Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.

International schools counted in the base: 1. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

• —5.2% foreign residents — the market is built for locals with a contract
• —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
• —Prices rising 9.5% a year — the landlord picks, and the first filter is a nómina

This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nóminanóminaA Spanish employment contract with payslips. Landlords ask for it as proof of income.Why it matters. A newcomer does not have one and will not in the first year. Where it is required, a long lease is nearly impossible — even with money in the bank. is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.

• enEnglish~757school, doctors or lawyers in the languageUK — the largest foreign community (15.9%)

Where from: INEINESpain's National Statistics Institute. It keeps the padrón — the official register of residents of every municipality.Why it matters. The only primary source of population for the whole country. A figure 'per INE' can be checked against a table; a figure 'from the internet' cannot., Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrónpadrónThe municipal register of residents. Registering in it — empadronamiento — proves you live here.Why it matters. Official population comes from it, and you will need it yourself: without registration there is no health card and no school enrolment. registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.

The winter schedule for this airport is not verified yet.

Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.

Paperwork and practicalities

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