Almería · Andalucía
Níjar
A neat white Almerian pottery town, famous throughout Andalucía for its handmade ceramics and woven jarapa textiles.
What Níjar is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km east of Almería, on the inland edge of the Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata.
Worth the trip
- Handmade pottery workshops along Avda. García Lorca and C/Real
- The more authentic potters' quarter, the barrio alfarero
- Jarapas — quilts, curtains and rugs woven from rags
Who it suits: Craft and pottery shoppers
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
- 14.1°C 6.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.9°C 0.7°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 25 days 64% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 8.5 h/day 17% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,182/m² 46% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €8,989 38% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24
- Nearest international school
- 29 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 30 min
- Nearest health centre
- 10.9 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 36 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 32,772
- Born in Spain
- 58.5% 30.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6.6% 2.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.12 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 Níjar fit you?
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