
Jerez de la Frontera
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.
- 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
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
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 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 23.2 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Jerez de la Frontera beaches and water quality
sourceJerez 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:
| Beach | Area | Distance | Grade 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Valdelagrana | Cádiz | 15 km | excellent |
| Playa La Puntilla | Cádiz | 15 km | excellent |
| Playa Aculadero-Puerto Sherry | Cádiz | 16 km | excellent |
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
sourcedThis 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 bedroom | 605 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 880 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 140 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 520 €/mo | SERPAVI · 83 m² |
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.
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- Colombia1 221
- Morocco1 219
- Venezuela578
- Honduras429
- Ukraine427
- Peru415
- China383
- Senegal349
- 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 airportThe winter schedule for this airport is not verified yet.
Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.
Paperwork and practicalities
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».
Articles that include this place
- Seven mistakes people make moving to coastal SpainEvery mistake counted across 132 coastal places: how many empty out in winter, where it is damp, where a car is unavoidable and where the sea is warm for three months.
- Winter sun in Spain: 30 towns that stay open all winterWinter-sun lists usually rank the weather. This one ranks what stays open: January against the summer peak from Spain's social security data, plus sea months, rent and the drive to the airport.
Where to look next
- El Puerto de Santa María2 555 €/m²
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda2 053 €/m²
- Cádiz3 011 €/m²
- San Sebastián de La Gomera1 500 €/m²
- Los Llanos de Aridane1 450 €/m²
- Isla Cristina1 425 €/m²