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Skyline of historic city Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia in Spain
Costa de la Luz · Cádiz

Jerez de la Frontera

5Winter liveability / 5To the sea 35 kmTo the airport 8 min · XRYPer m² 1 803 €

Jerez de la Frontera is the largest town in Cádiz province, with over two hundred thousand residents. It stands thirty-five kilometres from the sea and enters our base under the general rule of within a hundred and fifty kilometres of the coast. The town gave the wine its name: sherry is the English pronunciation of Jerez.

The town lives on three things: wine, horses and the motorcycle Grand Prix held on the local circuit. For anyone moving, other things matter more. This is a real Andalusian city with a university, hospitals, a railway station and an airport of its own with European flights. It works all year. Housing costs noticeably less than on the coast, and that is the price of not seeing the sea from the window. The beaches of the Bay of Cádiz are half an hour away by car.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Cádiz · 35 km — the old city on its spit in the ocean
  • Sanlúcar de Barrameda · 23 km — the Guadalquivir estuary and manzanilla
  • Arcos de la Frontera · 32 km — the white town on a cliff above the river
Resalesource
1 803€/m²
+14.42% price growth yoy
appraised value, Ministerio de Vivienda
New build
2 250€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
880€/mo
Populationsource
215 025
Foreign residents 4.4%
Winter humidity
71%
Sunshine hours per year
2 965h
Rent, 1 bed
605€/mo
International schools
3
Internet
450Mbps

Jerez de la Frontera sits in Cádiz, 35 km from the water. You can live here without a car: our rating is 4 out of 5, rare on the Spanish coast, and the town has its own train station. The sea is 35 km away: not a seaside town but a town near the sea, and the beach means a drive. The airport is 8 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
7min by car
Hospital Universitario de Jerez de La Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera · 3.9 km · public
Terrainsource
flat
Centre at 41 m, 13 m of elevation change
under 25 m of elevation change within 700 m — pram, bicycle, bad knees all fine
Car-freeour rating
4/5
comfortable without a car
Stations: Jerez de la Frontera · bus stops within 1.5 km: 157

Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.

Nearest sea: temperature by month

5 months above 20 °Csource
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21
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23
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21
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17
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Average sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 23.2 km from the centre.

Tourist load

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5
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Jerez de la Frontera beaches and water quality

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Jerez de la Frontera has no bathing point of its own in the EU register: the centre is 35 km from the sea. The nearest beaches where the water is tested, in a straight line:

BeachAreaDistanceGrade 2025
Playa ValdelagranaCádiz15 kmexcellent
Playa La PuntillaCádiz15 kmexcellent
Playa Aculadero-Puerto SherryCádiz16 kmexcellent

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

On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
520€/mo
75th percentile
650€/mo
Flat size
83m²

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 5 229 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: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Jerez de la Frontera

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom605 €/mo
2 bedrooms880 €/mo
3 bedrooms≈ 1 140 €/mo
Median of active leases, 2024520 €/mo

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.

Schools nearby

from registries
  • Sage College, The British International School of JerezJerez de la FronteraBritishEnglish, Spanish · 2–18 · privateOffers boarding for ages 11–18 — unusual for the region
  • El Altillo International SchoolJerez de la FronteraIBSpanish, English, French · 1–18 · privateThe only trilingual (Spanish/English/French) school in Cádiz province, IB MYP and DP

Checked against registries and school sites: 2026-09-17. Fees are on each school's site: nobody publishes them centrally.

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Renting without a Spanish contract

How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.

  • —4.4% foreign residents — the market is built for locals with a contract
  • —Prices rising 14.42% a year — the landlord picks, and the first filter is a nómina

This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina 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.

Who lives here

INE 2025
Foreign residents on the padrón
4.4%
9,421 of 215,025
  • Colombia1 221
  • Morocco1 219
  • Venezuela578
  • Honduras429
  • Ukraine427
  • Peru415
  • China383
  • Senegal349
Communities and services in their language
  • esSpanish~1 225Colombia — the largest foreign community (13%)

Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.

Winter direct flights from XRY

January 2026/278 min to the airport

The winter schedule for this airport is not verified yet.

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

Paperwork and practicalities

Appointment for the TIE· Cádizfrom reports
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The evidence conflicts sharply. One watching service reports one to two weeks for Cádiz and Algeciras, another three to six weeks, having found only four free slots in 78 days. Jerez is named as the less loaded alternative. Nobody reports a shortage of fingerprint appointments; treat this as a rough estimate.
1 — no slots for weeks, 5 — freely available. Checked 2026-09-17
Coworking within 3 km
not on the map
Dog beaches within 8 km
not on the map
Vets within 5 km
5

From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».

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Verified: 2026-09-13 · where the data comes from