Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Torrevieja
A marina town on the Costa Blanca with an active boating and sports scene.
Why people fall for Torrevieja
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa Blanca.
Worth the trip
- A nice marina with an active boating and sports scene
- Pleasant town squares and seaside restaurants
Who Torrevieja 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 Torrevieja lands.
Good for
- Retiring couples 98th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 31 rainy days a year
- American retirees 96th percentile of 8,132 towns a hospital in town · only 31 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
- 13.1°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 5.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.8°C bottom 45% of 8,131 towns 0.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 31 days top 1% of 8,088 towns 55% 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
- €2,182/m² bottom 44% of 306 towns about the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €9,868 bottom 1% of 8,059 towns 32% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.2% bottom 39% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 25 top 2% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 9 km top 7% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min top 1% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 56 min top 32% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% top 3% of 8,132 towns 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% top 1% of 8,132 towns 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 100,470
- Born in Spain
- 44.3% 44.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 16.5% 12.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.43 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 Torrevieja 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 Torrevieja against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 33 min from Orihuela, if that's your anchor.
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