Cádiz, Spain: population, climate, prices

Cádiz, Andalusia · 109,950 inhabitants (1 Jan 2025)

Living in Cádiz

Cádiz is a mid-sized city of 109,950 inhabitants on the coast in Cádiz (Andalusia), with mild winters and warm summers (January nights 9.4°C, August afternoons 28.1°C). It is one of the sunniest places in Spain: 8.5 hours of sunshine a day on average. Winter nights are mild for Spain: 9.4°C on average in January, warmer than 90% of the towns compared. The nearest international school (Bahía Montessori School, international curriculum) is 8.8 km away. Against that, public waiting lists in Andalusia are long (173 days on average for planned surgery); 86 nights a year stay above 20 °C, which makes sleeping without air conditioning hard in summer; 2.6% of all homes are holiday lets (Spain 1.3%), so summers are busy and rents are under pressure. Around 2055, Spain's official climate scenarios put August afternoons here at about 28.9°C and the number of warm nights at 102 a year.

Each sentence is chosen by where the town ranks among the 333 places compared on that measure (top or bottom 20%); the numbers are the ones in the sections below, from the sources named there.

About Cádiz

Cádiz is a city in Spain and the capital of the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated from neighbouring San Fernando by a narrow isthmus. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, Cádiz was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post. In the 18th century, the port in the Bay of Cádiz consolidated itself as the main harbour of mainland Spain during the Spanish Empire, enjoying the virtual monopoly of trade with the Americas until 1778. It is also the site of the University of Cádiz.

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Buying: appraised price

3,017 €/m²

Last 4 quarters to 2026 Q2, 1,344 valuations. 1 year 10.5%, 5 years 48.2%.

Renting: typical apartment

650 €/month

9.07 €/m² per month for a typical 72 m² (2024 contracts). 5 years 17.4%. Houses: 589 €/month.

Safety: recorded crime

36.9 per 1,000

Conventional crime 2025 (Spain ≈ 41). Home burglaries 0.70, violent robbery 0.92, theft 13.2 per 1,000. 1 year 2.1%.

Sea

0.4 km

Straight-line distance from the town centre to the coast.

Getting there

Nearest airport: Jerez Airport (XRY), 31 km, 884,539 passengers in 2025, 25 destinations
Direct to Amsterdam: Seville airport, 105 km (year-round)
Direct to Brussels (Zaventem or Charleroi): Seville airport, 105 km (year-round); summer only from Jerez, 31 km
Direct to London: Gibraltar airport, 95 km (year-round); summer only from Jerez, 31 km
Direct to Paris: Seville airport, 105 km (year-round)
Direct to Frankfurt: Seville airport, 105 km (year-round); summer only from Jerez, 31 km
Direct to the US: Lisbon airport, 353 km (year-round); summer only from Faro, 158 km
Train station: Cádiz (1.1 km)
Fastest train to Madrid: 4 h 36
Fastest train to Barcelona: no direct train

Distances are straight-line. Flights as listed in airport route tables on 4 Oct 2026; train times from Renfe's timetable (Iryo and Ouigo not included).

Healthcare

Nearest public general hospital: Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar (in town, 740 beds)
Nearest large public hospital (500+ beds, most specialties): Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar (in town, 740 beds)
Nearest private general hospital: Hospital San Rafael (in town, 280 beds)
General hospitals within 25 km: 12
Waiting time for planned surgery (Andalusia): 173 days on average; 32.2% wait more than 6 months (Spain: 121 days)
Waiting time for a first specialist visit: 136 days on average; 57.1% wait more than 60 days (Spain: 102 days)

Ministry of Health, National Hospital Catalogue 2025 (situation on 31 Dec 2024); general hospitals only. Distances are straight-line to the hospital's municipality. Residents registered in Spain use public hospitals; non-EU applicants for some visas must have private health insurance. Waiting times are for the whole region (public health service, 31 Dec 2025), as reported by each region to the Ministry of Health (SISLE-SNS); private insurance usually avoids most of the wait.

International schools

Nearest international school: Bahía Montessori School (curriculum not stated), El Puerto de Santa María, 8.8 km
International schools within 25 km: 5
Nearest by curriculum (within 100 km): British 9.4 km · American 13 km · French 100 km

Within 30 km (up to five):

School	Curriculum	Levels in the register	Where	Distance
Bahía Montessori School	curriculum not stated	infant, primary	El Puerto de Santa María	8.8 km
The English Centre	British	infant	El Puerto de Santa María	9.4 km
David Glasgow Farragut Elementary and High Schools	American	infant, primary	Rota	13 km
Sage College- The British School of Jerez	British	not listed	Jerez de la Frontera	19 km
El Altillo International School	curriculum not stated	not listed	Jerez de la Frontera	25 km

Ministry of Education, register of non-university schools (RCD), October 2026: every school authorised to teach a foreign curriculum in Spain, without the business, arts and hairdressing schools in the same list and without schools for one nationality (Japanese, Libyan, Iraqi, Russian, Panamanian). Curriculum as labelled in the register or clear from the school's name; levels as listed in the register, which leaves them out for some schools. Straight-line distance from the town centre. We do not rate schools: visit, and ask about accreditation and fees.

Who lives here

Population trend: -8.7% in ten years (120,468 in 2015, 109,950 in 2025)
Age: 25.1% aged 65 or over, 12.0% under 16 (2022; Spain: 20.0% and 14.9%)
Local income: 15,487 € net per person per year (2023), 103% of the Spanish average; median 19,250 € per adult-equivalent
Foreign residents: 2.2% of all residents; 0.5% of residents aged 65+ (2022)

INE: population register (Padrón) and household income atlas. Local income is a rough guide to local prices and affluence; Spain publishes no official cost-of-living index for towns.

Within a 10-minute walk of the centre

Everyday essentials on foot: 6 of 6 ✓ 15+ food shops ✓ 3+ pharmacies ✓ 25+ cafés, bars or restaurants ✓ 2+ parks ✓ 3+ bus stops ✓ 2+ libraries, theatres, cinemas or cultural centres
Lively centre: 73 out of 100: how much there is compared with the other 332 places (big cities score highest)

46 food shops (supermarkets, bakeries, greengrocers…)
16 pharmacies
3 doctors, clinics or hospitals
183 cafés, bars and restaurants
115 parks and gardens
34 bus stops
13 libraries, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres
1 market places

Counted in OpenStreetMap within 800 m of the town centre, taken as the point OpenStreetMap marks as the town's centre, moved at most 500 m to the busiest nearby spot (for a few spread-out municipalities without such a point: the busiest spot near the official coordinate). OpenStreetMap is kept by volunteers: very complete in most Spanish towns, thinner in some. “Everyday essentials” only asks whether the basics are there, so a small town can score 6 of 6; “lively centre” ranks each count among all 333 places and averages them, so it mostly reflects size. Large municipalities with several centres (Lorca, Oleiros, Ames…) can score low because their official centre is a small village.

Holiday lets and beaches

Tourist apartments: 1,471 (2.60% of all homes; Spain 1.28%), 5.9 tourist beds per 100 residents (May 2026)
Blue Flag beaches: 4 in town; 22 within 30 km

Tourist apartments: INE count of homes listed on Airbnb, Booking and Vrbo. A high share means busy summers and pressure on rents. Blue Flag 2026 (ADEAC): beaches meeting water-quality, safety and service standards; this includes some lake and river beaches. Distances are straight-line between town centres.

Water

River basin: Guadalete Y Barbate
Reservoirs now: 75.9% full (week of 2026-09-29); the same week in the previous 10 years averaged 37.5%
Worst week 2016-2025: 14.4% full (2024-01-09)
Weeks below 40% full, 2016-2025: 45% of all weeks

Ministry for the Ecological Transition, weekly hydrological bulletin: all reservoirs over 5 hm³ in the basin. Low reservoirs are what led to drought restrictions in Catalonia (2023-24) and Andalusia (2022-24). Some basins (Segura) also rely on transfers and desalination, so their reservoir level alone overstates the risk of taps running dry.

What the rankings say

Not named in the rankings we track.

Climate

● average daily high ● average nightly low ■ rainy days (1 mm or more). These are 1991-2020 averages, not record temperatures: a hot spell will be warmer and a cold night colder than these values.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average daily high, °C	16.1	16.7	18.6	20.0	22.7	25.4	27.5	28.1	25.9	23.3	19.4	16.9
Average nightly low, °C	9.4	10.4	12.3	13.9	16.5	19.5	21.5	22.2	20.3	17.4	13.3	10.8
Rain, mm	62	52	55	43	32	6	0	2	28	76	89	73
Rainy days (1 mm or more)	6.4	5.8	6.3	5.2	3.4	0.7	0.1	0.3	2.6	6.1	7.1	6.9
Sunshine, hours per day	5.7	6.8	7.7	8.9	10.5	11.7	12.1	11.1	9.1	7.4	6.0	5.2
Humidity, %	74	73	71	68	67	67	68	69	71	73	73	75
Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.7	3.1	7.9	9.5	3.0	0.1	0.0	0.0

The year in numbers

Köppen climate class: Csa: Hot-summer Mediterranean
Summer mugginess (August average dew point): 19.0°C – oppressive
Typical hottest day of the year: 35.0°C
Typical coldest night of the year: 3.7°C
Days reaching 25 °C / 77 °F: 103 a year (estimate)
Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F: 24 a year
Days reaching 35 °C / 95 °F: 1 a year (estimate)
Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more): 86 a year (estimate)
Frost nights (0 °C / 32 °F or less): 0 a year
Average humidity: 71%

Dew point measures how sticky the air feels: under 13 °C (55 °F) feels dry, 16-18 °C (61-64 °F) muggy, over 18 °C oppressive. For comparison, Davis, California (also Köppen Csa) has a summer dew point of about 11 °C. "Typical hottest day" is the 1991-2020 average of each year's single hottest day. Estimates are counted from daily satellite data adjusted to this place's averages; checked against AEMET's own 30 °C counts they are usually within 4 days a year.

1991-2020 averages, AEMET station CÁDIZ (5973), 4.9 km away; sunshine from ROTA, BASE NAVAL (5910), 12 km; temperatures adjusted to the town's altitude. © AEMET.

Around 2055 (projection)

August average high: 28.9°C: +0.8 °C compared with today (models range from 0.2 °C to 1.5 °C)
Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more): 102 a year, +16 (models: +6 to +33)
Frost nights: 0 a year (+0)
Rainy days (1 mm or more): 43 a year, -8 (models: -14 to -2)
Rain amount: -11% over the year: summer -43%, winter -5%
Sunlight reaching the ground: +0.5% (models: -0.9% to +2.1%); no official sunshine-hours projection exists

Spain's official climate scenarios (Escenarios-PNACC 2024, AEMET regionalisation of 11 global climate models, ~5 km grid), middle emissions scenario SSP2-4.5: average change from 2011-2040 to 2041-2070, added to today's 1991-2020 values above. The range shows the lowest and highest of the 11 models. Rain: the same models regionalised by CSIC (DeepESD). Sunlight: EURO-CORDEX regional models (RCP4.5). A projection, not a forecast. Read: Spain around 2055, region by region →

Questions people ask

Where is Cádiz?

Cádiz is in the province of Cádiz (Andalusia), Spain, on the coast. The nearest airport is Jerez Airport (XRY), 31 km away.

How many people live in Cádiz?

109,950 registered residents on 1 January 2025 (INE), -8.7% in ten years.

What is the climate of Cádiz?

January afternoons average 16.1°C and nights 9.4°C; August afternoons 28.1°C. 8.5 hours of sunshine a day and 51 rainy days a year (AEMET 1991-2020).

Is Cádiz safe?

Recorded conventional crime in Cádiz was 36.9 offences per 1,000 residents in 2025, about average for Spain (national rate about 41). Home burglaries: 0.70 per 1,000.

How hot is Cádiz in summer?

August afternoons average 28.1°C (1991-2020), with 86 nights a year above 20 °C and 1 days of 35 °C or more.

How cold is Cádiz in winter?

January afternoons average 16.1°C and January nights 9.4°C, with 0 frost nights a year.

Is there a hospital in Cádiz?

Yes: Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, a public general hospital with 740 beds. Planned surgery in Andalusia waits 173 days on average.

Can you fly direct from Cádiz to Amsterdam or London all year?

Yes. Jerez Airport (XRY) (31 km away) has year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US.

What does it cost to rent or buy in Cádiz?

A typical apartment (72 m²) rented for 650 € a month in 2024 contracts. Homes were appraised at 3,017 €/m² on average over the last four quarters, 48.2% in five years.

Nearby and similar towns

Nearest towns in this comparison: El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz, 9 km), Puerto Real (Cádiz, 9 km), Rota (Cádiz, 11 km), San Fernando (Cádiz, 11 km), Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz, 19 km)
Most similar towns (summer heat, winter nights, rainy days, home prices, size): Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), Mijas (Málaga), Estepona (Málaga), Benalmádena (Málaga), Mataró (Barcelona)

Distances are straight-line between town centres. Similarity is the distance in standardised values of the five measures.