Rojales
Alicante/Alacant · the Valencia region
Rojales is a municipality of 17,488 residents in Alicante province, the Valencia region, about 8 km from the nearest coastline. Registered long-let rents average €5.89/m² a month — roughly 6% above the national municipal average of €5.57. Among residents, roughly 1 in 3 holds UK nationality.
The case for Rojales
- only 31 rainy days a year
- 13.1°C average winters
- ALC airport 59 minutes away
- Torrevieja — a 100,000+ city — 18 minutes by road
- AVE high-speed rail about 20 minutes away
- 57 restaurants and cafés
- 6 schools in town
- 9.3% of residents are under 15 — more children than the typical Spanish town
- 99% fibre-to-the-home coverage
No adjectives, no opinions — every line is a measured value from the data below, shown only when Rojales genuinely earns it. Distances marked "as the crow flies" are straight-line estimates.
Rojales's Spainability Scores
Percentile within each canonical persona's scoreable municipality pool.
Higher than 76% of 2,555 scoreable municipalities.
Higher than 99% of 8,088 scoreable municipalities.
Higher than 97% of 8,088 scoreable municipalities.
Higher than 96% of 2,299 scoreable municipalities.
Higher than 99% of 2,299 scoreable municipalities.
Higher than 99% of 2,299 scoreable municipalities.
Published data for Rojales
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 13.1°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 5.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.8°C bottom 45% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 31 days top 1% of 8,088 towns 55% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 259 bottom 1% of 8,033 towns 203 above the Spanish average (56)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 0.16 ha/km² bottom 39% of 8,132 towns 2.15 ha/km² below the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 2 bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 4 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 25.1% bottom 24% of 8,130 towns 2.2% above the Spanish average (22.9%)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €5.89/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €4/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €7.85/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €10,746 bottom 6% of 8,059 towns 26% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 40.4% top 4% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6 top 10% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 15 km top 15% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 18 min top 18% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 1.4 km top 7% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 59 min top 34% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 99% top 8% of 8,132 towns 20% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 12% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 17,488
- Born in Spain
- 30.1% 58.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 53.3% 49.5% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.37 per 1,000
Monthly climate normals
Numbers: Spainability town dataset. Missing fields are shown as missing. Registered rent, sale appraisal and asking-price figures keep their separate basis labels.
Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Request comparable sales; neither appraisal nor asking data is published.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
- Ask an insurer how the mapped flood or wildfire exposure affects cover.
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