Granada · Andalucía
Almuñécar
A lively resort marred by towering holiday apartments and cramped beaches — yet the esplanade and attractive old quarter still make it fun.
What Almuñécar is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Andalucía's south coast.
On the table. Palm-roofed esplanade bars, many serving free tapas with each drink.
Worth the trip
- An old quarter clustered around a sixteenth-century castle
- Playa San Cristóbal and Playa Puerta del Mar, separated by the Peñon del Santo headland
Who it suits: Resort holidaymakers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 14.4°C 6.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 44 days 36% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,662/m² 21% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,350 22% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 36.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 54.3 per 1,000 23% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 45 min
- Nearest health centre
- 5.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 87 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 28,011
- Born in Spain
- 76.3% 12.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11.9% 8.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 8.96 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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