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View of the village of Alaior. Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Alaior

1Winter liveability / 5To the sea 4 kmTo the airport 15 min · MAHPer m² 2 600

Alaior is a small town in the middle of Menorca, twelve kilometres from the capital, with a little over ten thousand residents. It does not live on tourism alone: cheese and shoes are made here, there is building-materials production, and a branch of the University of the Balearic Islands.

On an island where almost everything hangs on the season, that is rare. But Alaior has its price: it sits inland, the sea is a drive away, and life without a car is hard — we rate it two out of five. The hospital and the airport are fifteen minutes off, which counts as close on Menorca. The square metre is cheaper than in either of the island's towns. In winter, as everywhere here, it is quiet: load falls to one.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Maó · 12 kmthe island capital, the hospital and the airport
  • Son Bou · 9 kmMenorca's longest beach
  • Torre d'en Galmés · 4 kmthe Bronze Age settlement on the hill
Resaleestimate
2 600€/m²
+7% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
3 300€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
950€/mo
Populationsource
10 356
Foreign residents 15.9%
Winter humidity
73%
damp risk without heating
Sunshine hours per year
2 700h
Rent, 1 bed
700€/mo
International schools
0
Internet
300Mbps

Alaior sits in Menorca, 4 km from the water. From November to March the town empties out: our rating is 1 out of 5. A resort in summer, shuttered bars and thin transport in winter. The airport is 15 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
30min by car
Hospital Mateu Orfila
Maó-Mahón · 15.5 km · public
Terrainsource
rolling
Centre at 124 m, 36 m of elevation change
25–80 m of change — the climb from the sea to the centre is noticeable on foot
Car-freeour rating
2/5
hard without a car
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 3

Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.

Sea temperature

5 months above 20 °C
15
J
14
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
D

Tourist load

1
J
1
F
2
M
2
A
3
M
4
J
5
J
5
A
4
S
3
O
2
N
1
D

On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
500€/mo
75th percentile
600€/mo
Flat size
76

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 432 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 950 € for a two-bedroom.

The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.

Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Alaior

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom700/mo
2 bedrooms950/mo
3 bedrooms1 240/mo
Median of active leases, 2024500/mo

Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.

Schools nearby

estimate

International schools counted in the base: 0. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

2

Renting without a Spanish contract

How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.

  • Stock goes to tourist lets: long leases are scarce and competed for

This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.

Who lives here

INE 2025
Foreign residents on the padrón
15.9%
1,647 of 10,356
  • United Kingdom457
  • Morocco281
  • Italy183
  • Romania93
  • Peru87
  • Germany66
  • Colombia54
  • France53
Communities and services in their language
  • No notable foreign-language community with services recorded.

Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.

Winter direct flights from MAH

January 2026/2715 min to the airport
  • United Kingdom1

Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.

Paperwork and practicalities

Appointment for the TIE· Illes Balearsfrom reports
2
In Ibiza in February 2026 the police station said it plainly: slots are released twice a month and there are not enough of them. One resident had been unable to book for two years. The Balearic immigration office is the worst staffed in Spain: 38 people against 75 posts, and none at all in Ibiza. Formentera residents have to travel to Ibiza. In Palma the wait is two to four weeks, summer is the hardest season, and new slots appear around eight in the morning.
1 — no slots for weeks, 5 — freely available. Checked 2026-09-17
Coworking within 3 km
not on the map
Dog beaches within 8 km
not on the map
Vets within 5 km
1

From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».

Where to look next

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Verified: 2026-09-14 · where the data comes from