Calpe / Calp in October
Around 20 °C by day, sea 22.9 °C. Warm enough to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 of 5.
October in Calpe is 20 °C by day and 22.9 °C in the sea. Swimming still works and load has fallen from the summer 5 to 3 out of 5.
Calpe has the highest share of foreign residents in our whole base: 54.1% of 27,440 people. For comparison, Torrevieja has 49.5%, Jávea 47.5%, Marbella 31%. The consequence cuts both ways. The first year without Spanish is easy: English and German are spoken around you. Learning the language is correspondingly harder, because daily life rarely requires it.
Towns nearby in October
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calpe / Calp | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 004 |
| Torrevieja | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 169 |
| Alicante | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 251 |
| Santa Pola | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 486 |
| Dénia | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 826 |
| El Campello | 20 | 22.9 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 906 |
| Benidorm | 20 | 23 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3 079 |
| Orihuela Costa | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3 348 |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 estimate: are places open, does transport run, is anyone about between November and March. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 38 rainy days a year, 66% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.