Almería · Andalucía
Mojácar
Eastern Almería's main resort — a striking white-cube hill village revived from ghost-town status by a 1960s free-land scheme, now backed by a lively beach strip.
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Why people fall for Mojácar
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Mojácar Pueblo, the hill village, sits a couple of km back from the sea on a rocky outcrop; Mojácar Playa is the beach development below.
Worth the trip
- Mojácar Pueblo's cubist white houses wrapped round a rocky outcrop
- A long, excellent sandy beach at Mojácar Playa with warm, clear water
A little history
A near-ghost town by the 1960s, until its mayor offered free land to anyone who would build within a year, attracting an artists' colony later supplanted by package-holiday companies.
Who it suits: Summer beach holidaymakers · Foreign second-homers
Who Mojácar 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 Mojácar lands.
Good for
- Remote-working couples 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 14 km from the sea · 7,642 people
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
- 30 top 32% of 8,033 towns 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,603 bottom 25% of 8,059 towns 13% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 39.1% top 5% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4 top 15% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 57 km bottom 38% 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
- 47 min bottom 30% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 13.2 km bottom 28% 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
- 64 min top 40% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% top 12% of 8,132 towns 19% 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
- 7,642
- Born in Spain
- 46.6% 42.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 37.9% 34.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 4.32 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 Mojácar 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 Mojácar against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 63 min from Almería, if that's your anchor.
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