Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Torrevieja
A marina town on the Costa Blanca with an active boating and sports scene.
What Torrevieja is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Costa Blanca.
Worth the trip
- A nice marina with an active boating and sports scene
- Pleasant town squares and seaside restaurants
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 5.3°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.8°C 0.6°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 31 days 55% 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
- €2,182/m² about the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €9,868 32% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.2%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 100 per 1,000 128% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 25
- Nearest international school
- 9 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
- 56 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 100% 21% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 17% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 100,470
- Born in Spain
- 44.3% 44.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 16.5% 12.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.43 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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