Málaga · Andalucía
Gaucín
Almost a mountain village, commanding tremendous views to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast on a clear day.
What Gaucín is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
23km beyond Jimena, through cork oak woods and olive groves.
Worth the trip
- Views stretching to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast
Who it suits: Scenic road-trippers
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
- 8°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 29.4°C 0.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 71 days 3% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,068 24% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 43.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 58.2 per 1,000 32% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 22 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 75 min
- Nearest health centre
- 10.3 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 121 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 70% 9% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 80% 3% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,616
- Born in Spain
- 75.6% 13.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 16.2% 12.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 8.05 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 Gaucín fit you?
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