Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Dénia
A historic port town on an imposing peninsula, named for the goddess Diana — a beach-hopping base with UNESCO-recognised seafood and a real summer buzz.
What Dénia is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
At the foot of the Parc Natural del Montgó, on the Costa Blanca.
On the table. UNESCO-recognised gastronomy — restaurants work wonders with impossibly fresh seafood.
Worth the trip
- A Moorish-era castle, the Castillo de Dénia
- Beautiful, less-developed beaches and coves further south, some reachable via coastal paths
A little history
Named by the Romans after the goddess Diana, patroness of the wilderness and the moon.
Who it suits: Beach-and-sightseeing travellers · Foodies
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
- 12.5°C 4.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.3°C 1.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 39 days 44% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 110 53 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,842/m² 29% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,954 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.1%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 52.2 per 1,000 19% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24
- Nearest international school
- 14 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 84 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 47,568
- Born in Spain
- 63.5% 25.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 12.9% 9% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.78 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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