Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Xàbia
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby.
What Xàbia is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At the heart of the area near the easternmost Cabo de la Nao, on the Costa Blanca.
Worth the trip
- Cala Portitxol (Playa la Barraca), a sand-and-pebble cove backed by high cliffs
Who it suits: Villa-holiday travellers · Valencian weekenders (lively evenings in summer)
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
- 154 97 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,685/m² 67% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,533 14% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 33.2%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 62.3 per 1,000 42% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 14
- Nearest international school
- 5 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 21 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
- 90 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,817
- Born in Spain
- 47% 41.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 26.5% 22.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 7.66 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 Xàbia fit you?
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