SpainScore rankings · Updated July 2026
Best places in Spain for remote workers
For an online-earning couple who want the coast, a real food-and-nature scene, and costs kept sensible.
How we ranked this
We answered our own 17-question quiz as a remote-working couple who told the quiz they earn online, want to live near the coast in a mid-size town, care about a good food-and-nature week, and keep costs sensible. Then we ran every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities through the same scoring engine the quiz uses, and kept the top-ranked towns that have a full data profile.
- Data INE census (population, origins), AEMET climate normals, regional PISA scores, and the Health Ministry's SISLE waiting lists — each town compared against the Spanish average.
- Reproducible Feed the same persona into our engine and you get this exact order. No hand-picking, no affiliate deals.
- What we don't score We treat broadband lightly (the Starlink rule — any decent internet works) and don't score coworking spaces or a nomad 'scene' — only cost, coast, lifestyle basket and 100 Mbps coverage.
The ranking
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5 km from the sea; 11,690 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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4 km from the sea; 16,768 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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4 km from the sea; 75,915 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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4 km from the sea; 10,675 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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4 km from the sea; a real food scene; 13 min to a hospital.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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5 km from the sea; 384,023 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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4 km from the sea; 220,400 people; low housing cost (~€1,496/m²).
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
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9 km from the sea; 17,116 people; a hospital in town.
Honest tradeoff: Nature / hiking terrain.
Compare the top 8
| # | Town | Home price | Net income/person | 100 Mbps cover | Summer high | Coast |
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| 1 | Formentera | no data | €18,860 | 100% | 30.1°C | 5 km |
| 2 | Hondarribia | no data | €21,641 | 98% | 25.5°C | 4 km |
| 3 | Avilés | €1,531/m² | €15,545 | 100% | 22.2°C | 4 km |
| 4 | Laredo | no data | €14,453 | 100% | 22.7°C | 4 km |
| 5 | Santillana del Mar | no data | €15,247 | 98% | 23.3°C | 4 km |
| 6 | Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las | €2,251/m² | €14,968 | 99% | 24.6°C | 5 km |
| 7 | Cartagena | €1,496/m² | €13,126 | 98% | 30.1°C | 4 km |
| 8 | Bermeo | no data | €17,332 | 99% | 25.9°C | 9 km |
Values from the SpainScore dataset (INE / AEMET / regional sources). "no data" = we don't have that number for this town and never guess it.
Questions
Where is the best place in Spain for remote workers?
For a remote-working couple who want coast, lifestyle and sensible costs, our engine favours mid-size coastal towns and cities with good value. Broadband is rarely the bottleneck in Spain, so we weight cost and lifestyle more heavily than fibre.
Is internet good enough in small Spanish towns for remote work?
Usually yes — Spain has some of Europe's best fibre coverage, and Starlink fills the rural gaps. We show 100 Mbps coverage per town but don't over-weight it, because it's rarely the deciding factor.
This is a generic remote-working couple
Get your ranking, not this one →
This list scores one representative persona. Answer a dozen honest questions and we score all 8,132 municipalities against your priorities — climate, cost, healthcare, community, getting home — with the tradeoffs shown as plainly as the wins.
Take the 3-minute quiz →Updated July 2026. Re-generated from the SpainScore dataset on each data release — the ranking is reproducible, not editorial.