
Alaior
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.
- Maó · 12 km — the island capital, the hospital and the airport
- Son Bou · 9 km — Menorca's longest beach
- Torre d'en Galmés · 4 km — the Bronze Age settlement on the hill
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
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 °CTourist load
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis 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 bedroom | 700 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 950 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 240 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 500 €/mo | SERPAVI · 76 m² |
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
estimateInternational 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.
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- United Kingdom457
- Morocco281
- Italy183
- Romania93
- Peru87
- Germany66
- Colombia54
- France53
- 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
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
- Maó / Mahón2 811 €/m²
- Es Castell3 000 €/m²
- Ciutadella de Menorca3 555 €/m²
- Garrucha2 200 €/m²
- Torrevieja2 169 €/m²
- Blanes2 068 €/m²