Jaén · Andalucía
Baeza
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it.
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Living in Baeza
Baeza is a compact, provincial town of 15,500 in Jaén, with a quiet, almost perpetual-Sunday air and a handsome twin-plaza centre lined with cafés. It is deeply local — around nineteen in twenty residents are Spanish-born — and the pace is slow to the point of sleepy. Summers are hot, with highs around 34°C, winters mild near 10°C. There's a health centre in town, but the nearest hospital is a good forty minutes off, over towards Linares.
Baeza's Spainability Scores — by who's moving
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities. Each score is Baeza's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 52% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick for American retirees — a health centre close by and 43 min to a hospital.
- Winter average temp 10.2°C
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
- U.S.-born residents 0.39 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €3.67/m²·mo
Higher than 51% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick for a retiring couple — a health centre close by and 43 min to a hospital.
- Winter average temp 10.2°C
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
- Surgical wait (region) 173 days
- Registered long-let rent €3.67/m²·mo
Higher than 29% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick for a remote-working couple — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.67/m²·mo) and 15,567 people.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 97%
- Drive to nearest airport 99 min
- Registered long-let rent €3.67/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.7°C
Higher than 26% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.67/m²·mo) and 15,567 people.
- Registered long-let rent €3.67/m²·mo
- Net income per person €11,817
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.7°C
Higher than 22% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.67/m²·mo) and 15,567 people.
- Schools in town 13
- PISA maths (region) 457
- Registered long-let rent €3.67/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
Higher than 13% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
Tiny, compact and provincial, with a perpetual Sunday air about it. A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.67/m²·mo) and a real food scene.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 33.7°C
- Rainy days a year 56 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 24
- Winter average temp 10.2°C
What is the climate like in Baeza?
Baeza's reported winter average is 10.2°C, while July–August highs reach 33.7°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 10.2°C top 22% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.7°C bottom 16% of 8,131 towns 3.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 56 days top 31% of 8,088 towns 19% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 24 top 27% of 8,033 towns 33 below the Spanish average (56)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 0.04 ha/km² top 44% of 8,132 towns 2.27 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 4 bottom 25% of 8,132 towns 2 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 25.6% bottom 22% of 8,130 towns 2.7% above the Spanish average (22.9%)
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How good is healthcare in Baeza?
Baeza's nearest health centre is 6.2 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 43 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min bottom 35% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 6.2 km top 35% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Baeza?
Baeza has 13 schools in town; the nearest international school is 34 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 34 km top 40% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Baeza?
Baeza's reported asking price is €1,306/m².
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- €1,306/m² asking · Fotocasa Jun 2026 · small sample
- Registered long-let rent
- €3.67/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €2.84/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €4.76/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €11,817 bottom 16% of 8,059 towns 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23.4% bottom 35% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Baeza?
Spanish is the only region-wide official language in Andalusia, and Spanish-medium teaching is the public-school default. Individual bilingual and international programmes can use other languages, so check the specific school. See the Andalusia region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Baeza?
Baeza's reported population is 15,567.
Who lives here
- Population
- 15,567
- Born in Spain
- 95.3% 6.5% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.39 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Baeza?
Baeza is a reported 99 min drive from the nearest airport, with 94% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 99 min bottom 26% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 33% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 35% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Numbers: Spainability town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Registered long-let rent is SERPAVI declared-contract data; its p25–p75 values show the observed band. Registered-rent yield is gross, excludes costs and is never imputed. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Baeza fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Baeza against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Linares, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Baeza for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Ask what recent sales closed at; the published figure is asking price.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
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