Where it actually is
132 coastal places. Colour is price per m², size is winter liveability. Cheap and alive-in-winter often contradict each other, and the map shows it at a glance.
Blue is cheaper, coral is pricier. Click a dot to open the place.
What the map shows
The Spanish coast divides by water, not by region. The Mediterranean is the south and east: the sea is warm from June to October, winters are mild, and prices and crowds climb towards the islands. The Atlantic is the north and north-west: cold water all year, but green, rainy and half the price. The same budget buys a square metre in the north that would cover half of one in the south.
The size of a dot is winter liveability: whether the town works from November to March. The largest dots are almost always real towns rather than resorts, and they cost more. The cheapest dots are either the Atlantic north or resorts that shut for the winter. «Cheap and alive» is rare on this coast, and the map is the fastest way to spot the exceptions.
There are twenty-five airports on the map, and that is the second hidden filter. A town an hour from an airport with fifty direct routes and a town three hours from one with ten are different lives, even when their climate and price figures match. Minutes to the airport and the number of destinations are on every place page.