
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Sanlúcar de Barrameda stands on the left bank of the Guadalquivir estuary facing the Doñana national park, with seventy thousand residents. Magellan sailed from here on the voyage round the world, and Elcano came back to it. Jerez is twenty-three kilometres away, Cádiz fifty, Seville ninety-six.
The town is known for two things: manzanilla, the wine aged only here, and the August horse races on the beach, running since the nineteenth century. For anyone moving, the ordinary things matter more: this is a real Andalusian town that works all year, with a market, doctors and schools. Housing costs less than on the Costa del Sol. The Atlantic here is colder than the Mediterranean, it is windy, and the beach is wide because the tides are real ones rather than Mediterranean.
- Jerez de la Frontera · 23 km — sherry, horses and the airport
- Doñana · 5 km — the national park across the river, by boat
- Cádiz · 50 km — the old city on its spit in the ocean
Sanlúcar de Barrameda sits in Cádiz, Costa de la Luz, right on the water. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. Fast internet at a median of 320 Mbps: remote work is not a problem here.
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.
Sea temperature
5 months above 20 °CTourist load
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 944 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: Sanlúcar de Barrameda
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 | 473 €/mo | SERPAVI · 78 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
estimateInternational schools counted in the base: 0. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.
Renting without a Spanish contract
How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.
- —2.3% foreign residents — the market is built for locals with a contract
- —Prices rising 8% 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- Morocco203
- Colombia148
- Venezuela109
- China98
- United States91
- Romania85
- Senegal78
- France69
- arArabic~203Morocco — the largest foreign group (12.8%)
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 2026/2735 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».
Where to look next
- Jerez de la Frontera1 734 €/m²
- El Puerto de Santa María2 502 €/m²
- Cádiz3 095 €/m²
- Jerez de la Frontera1 734 €/m²
- Roquetas de Mar1 696 €/m²
- Almería1 657 €/m²