Almería · Andalucía
Mojácar
Eastern Almería's main resort — a striking white-cube hill village revived from ghost-town status by a 1960s free-land scheme, now backed by a lively beach strip.
What Mojácar is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Mojácar Pueblo, the hill village, sits a couple of km back from the sea on a rocky outcrop; Mojácar Playa is the beach development below.
Worth the trip
- Mojácar Pueblo's cubist white houses wrapped round a rocky outcrop
- A long, excellent sandy beach at Mojácar Playa with warm, clear water
A little history
A near-ghost town by the 1960s, until its mayor offered free land to anyone who would build within a year, attracting an artists' colony later supplanted by package-holiday companies.
Who it suits: Summer beach holidaymakers · Foreign second-homers
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
- 30 26 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,603 13% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 39.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 4
- Nearest international school
- 57 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 457 24 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 47 min
- Nearest health centre
- 13.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 173 days 60% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 64 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 7,642
- Born in Spain
- 46.6% 42.2% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 37.9% 34.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 4.32 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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