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Holiday resorts stretched alongside Alcudia beach on Mallorca, Spai
Mallorca · Balearic Islands

Alcúdia

1Winter liveability / 5To the sea 200 mTo the airport 55 min · PMIPer m² 4 200

Alcúdia is a town in the north of Mallorca with twenty-two thousand residents. It is older than most of its neighbours: the ruins of the Roman town of Pollentia lie beside it, and the town itself is ringed by a medieval wall that survives almost intact. From the old centre to the sea is a couple of kilometres — the port and the beaches sit apart, with the resort quarter grown up between them.

The north of Mallorca lives differently from Palma. In winter most of what works in summer closes, and tourist load drops to the bottom of the scale. The airport is nearly an hour away and the hospital half an hour — far by the island's standards. About a third of residents are foreign. In exchange: a quiet winter, the Serra de Tramuntana close by, and a square metre below Palma's. Anyone choosing between the city and the north should come in February. In August the difference is invisible.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Pollença · 10 kmthe old town at the foot of the mountains and the bay nearby
  • Palma de Mallorca · 55 kmthe island capital with the airport and the station
  • Sa Calobra · 50 kmthe gorge and the mountain road in the Tramuntana
Resaleestimate
4 200€/m²
+7% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
5 000€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
1000€/mo
Populationsource
22 459
Foreign residents 28.7%
Winter humidity
70%
Sunshine hours per year
2 750h
Rent, 1 bed
750€/mo
International schools
1
Internet
380Mbps

Alcúdia sits in Mallorca, Balearic Islands, right on the water. 28.7% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. The nearest hospital is a 30-minute drive, further than usual on the coast.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
34min by car
Hospital Comarcal D´Inca
Inca · 30.5 km · public
Terrainsource
flat
Centre at 0 m, 0 m of elevation change
under 25 m of elevation change within 700 m — pram, bicycle, bad knees all fine
Car-freeour rating
3/5
possible without a car, with caveats
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 0

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
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26
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Tourist load

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2
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5
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On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
650€/mo
75th percentile
800€/mo
Flat size
88

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 1 184 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 1 000 € 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: Alcúdia

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom750/mo
2 bedrooms1 000/mo
3 bedrooms1 300/mo
Median of active leases, 2024650/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: 1. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

4

Renting without a Spanish contract

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

  • 28.7% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
  • A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
  • 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
28.7%
6,451 of 22,459
  • Morocco1 214
  • Colombia980
  • Italy774
  • United Kingdom380
  • Argentina312
  • Germany296
  • Romania267
  • Senegal257
Communities and services in their language
  • deGerman~5 000school, doctors or lawyers in the language
  • enEnglish~4 000school, doctors or lawyers in the language

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 PMI

January 2026/2755 min to the airport
  • Germany18
  • United Kingdom8
  • Italy4
  • other countries4
  • Switzerland3
  • Netherlands2
  • France2
  • Austria1
  • Belgium1
  • Sweden1
  • Denmark1
  • Czechia1
  • Poland1

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
Na Patana
Vets within 5 km
2

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».

Month by month

Air, sea, how busy it gets and what stays open — for each month on its own.

Where to look next

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Verified: 2026-09-13 · where the data comes from