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Águilas
A rural-charm port town hemmed in by parched hills, its economy built on tomatoes and fishing, whose Carnaval is especially wild.
Why people fall for Águilas
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
47km from Mazarrón, almost on the Andalucía border, hemmed in by the Sierra del Contar.
On the table. A fish auction held around 5pm every day in the port's modern fish market.
Worth the trip
- Castillo de San Juan
- The exquisite mosaic staircase at Rincon Del Hornillo
- Cuatro Calas, undeveloped coves south of town including Cala Carolina and Cala Cocedores
Fiestas
- Carnaval, three days and nights in February, with processions, floats and fancy-dress mayhem
Who it suits: Beach explorers with their own transport
Who Águilas is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Águilas lands.
Good for
- Retiring couples 90th percentile of 8,132 towns only 34 rainy days a year · dry winters
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 11.7°C top 14% of 8,131 towns 3.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.6°C bottom 17% of 8,131 towns 3.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 34 days top 2% of 8,088 towns 51% 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)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,461/m² top 25% of 306 towns 34% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,511 bottom 13% of 8,059 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.7% top 39% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 16 top 4% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 35 km top 39% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 463 #15 of 17 regions, −16 vs national 18 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 37 min bottom 45% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 6.1 km top 30% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 103 days #10 of 17 regions, at the national mark 4% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min top 40% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 16% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 29% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 37,761
- Born in Spain
- 82.6% 6.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.6% 0.8% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.42 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Águilas fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Águilas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 38 min from Lorca, if that's your anchor.
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