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.
Sanlúcar de Barrameda sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 17.2 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Sanlúcar de Barrameda beaches and water quality
sourceSanlúcar de Barrameda has 3 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 4 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 3 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2014: Playa Bajo de Guia-Bonanza.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa La Calzada | 1.1 km | excellent | 11 seasons | none since 2008 |
| Playa Bajo de Guia-Bonanza | 1.2 km | excellent | 9 seasons | 2014 |
| Playa La Jara | 3.1 km | excellent | 11 seasons | 1992 |
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 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».
Articles that include this place
- 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.
- Andalusia's beaches by water quality: five provinces, the Bay of Algeciras and the sea from the Strait to MojácarGrades from the European register for every sampling point on Andalusia's coast since 1990: where the water was not excellent in 2025, Huelva's bad first year, the bay against the ocean in Cádiz, eight clean seasons in Málaga and Almería, and the sea on five coasts.
Where to look next
- Jerez de la Frontera1 803 €/m²
- El Puerto de Santa María2 555 €/m²
- Cádiz3 011 €/m²
- Roquetas de Mar1 706 €/m²
- Huelva1 650 €/m²
- La Línea de la Concepción1 623 €/m²
- San Pedro del Pinatar2 049 €/m²
- Pontevedra2 027 €/m²
- Arrecife2 011 €/m²