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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.
What Águilas is like
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
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 11.7°C 3.9°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 33.6°C 3.4°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 34 days 51% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 259 203 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,461/m² 34% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €11,511 21% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 16
- Nearest international school
- 35 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 463 18 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 37 min
- Nearest health centre
- 6.1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 103 days 4% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 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: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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