Málaga · Andalucía
Mijas
An old quarter of low, bright houses adorned with artistic grilles, clinging to the mountainside — famous for its donkey 'burro-taxis'.
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Why people fall for Mijas
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Worth the trip
- Burro-taxis — donkeys that take visitors around the steep streets
Who it suits: Photographers
Who Mijas 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 Mijas lands.
Good for
- American retirees 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 15.1°C average winters · only 42 rainy days a year
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
- 15.1°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 7.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 28.6°C top 26% of 8,131 towns 1.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 42 days top 6% of 8,088 towns 39% 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
- €3,235/m² bottom 13% of 306 towns 47% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,823 bottom 16% of 8,059 towns 18% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 40% top 4% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 35 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 7 km top 5% 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
- 21 min top 25% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 5 km top 23% 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
- 42 min top 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% top 19% of 8,132 towns 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 18% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 94,320
- Born in Spain
- 61.4% 27.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 17.5% 13.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 3.17 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 Mijas 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 Mijas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 13 min from Fuengirola, if that's your anchor.
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