Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Benidorm
The beach resort everyone loves to hate — hugely high-rise and 'vaguely Vegas' — yet its sun-drenched sandy beaches keep the crowds coming.
What Benidorm is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa Blanca; a quick tram ride from Alicante.
Worth the trip
- An old-town core behind the high-rises, with fresh mojitos and tapas
A little history
British writer Rose Macaulay once described it as a small village 'crowded very beautifully round its domed and tiled church on a rocky peninsula.'
Who it suits: British/German/Scandinavian package sun-and-nightlife holidaymakers
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
- 12.5°C 4.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.3°C 1.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 39 days 44% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 154 97 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,089/m² 40% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €12,263 15% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 21.1%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 78.9 per 1,000 79% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 28
- Nearest international school
- 4 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 8 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 66 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 77,211
- Born in Spain
- 59% 29.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 11.4% 7.6% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.28 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.
How does Benidorm fit you?
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