Granada · Andalucía
Almuñécar
A lively resort marred by towering holiday apartments and cramped beaches — yet the esplanade and attractive old quarter still make it fun.
Why people fall for Almuñécar
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Andalucía's south coast.
On the table. Palm-roofed esplanade bars, many serving free tapas with each drink.
Worth the trip
- An old quarter clustered around a sixteenth-century castle
- Playa San Cristóbal and Playa Puerta del Mar, separated by the Peñon del Santo headland
Who it suits: Resort holidaymakers
Who Almuñécar 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 Almuñécar lands.
Almuñécar is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 62nd and 82nd percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
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
- 14.4°C top 2% of 8,131 towns 6.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.6°C top 36% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 44 days top 9% of 8,088 towns 36% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 top 32% of 8,033 towns 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €2,662/m² bottom 29% of 306 towns 21% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,350 bottom 12% of 8,059 towns 22% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 36.3% top 8% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 24 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 5 km top 3% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 #16 of 17 regions, −22 vs national 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 45 min bottom 33% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 5.3 km top 26% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days #17 of 17 regions, +70 days vs national 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 87 min bottom 37% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 93% bottom 48% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 28,011
- Born in Spain
- 76.3% 12.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11.9% 8.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 8.96 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 Almuñécar 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 Almuñécar against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 44 min from Motril, if that's your anchor.
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