Balears, Illes · Baleares
Formentera
A beautifully pure, get-away-from-it-all island — the smallest of the four main Balearics, with a bohemian, low-key character rooted in the 1960s hippy trail.
What Formentera is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet & The Rough Guide.
Dangling off the south coast of Ibiza, a half-hour by fast ferry, 20km long.
Worth the trip
- Some of Europe's most exquisite beaches, frost-white sand and azure/turquoise water
- Es Pujols aside, nude sunbathing is the norm nearly everywhere
A little history
Left uninhabited between 1348 and 1697 for fear of pirate raids; later a key stop on the 1960s hippy trail (Pink Floyd recorded an album here).
Who it suits: Beach purists wanting to escape rather than find sophistication · Cyclists (cars are restricted)
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
- 13.1°C 5.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.1°C 0.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 44 days 35% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 7.7 h/day 6% more than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 69 12 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €18,860 30% more than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 40.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 33 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 471 10 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2.7 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 105 days 3% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 68 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 97% 18% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 11,690
- Born in Spain
- 64.4% 24.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 13.4% 9.6% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.05 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 Formentera fit you?
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