Murcia · Murcia
Mazarrón
One of the region's main resorts, mainly attracting Spanish families, along a scenic and largely undeveloped stretch of coast.
What Mazarrón is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
South of Cartagena.
Worth the trip
- Fine coves along the arid, serrated coastline
- Playa Poniente, a well-maintained south-facing beach at Águilas with a view to the castle
Who it suits: Spanish family 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
- 11.7°C 4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 34.9°C 4.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 35 days 49% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 259 203 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,611/m² 27% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €10,468 28% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 15
- Nearest international school
- 23 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 463 18 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 4.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 103 days 4% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 44 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 35,642
- Born in Spain
- 59.1% 29.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 18.2% 14.4% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.79 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.
How does Mazarrón fit you?
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