Ciutadella de Menorca
Ciutadella is Menorca's most populated town, with around thirty-two thousand residents. It stands at the western end of the island on a narrow inlet. Until seventeen fourteen, when the British took the island and moved the administration to Maó, it was the capital; the bishopric is still here. Its old centre has survived better than Maó's since.
For anyone moving, the difference between Menorca's two towns is substantial. Ciutadella is furthest from the infrastructure: 45 minutes to a hospital, forty-five to the airport, and the square metre costs more than in Maó. In exchange: a more complete old town and the western beaches. The island empties for a long winter, and Ciutadella is no exception — from December to February load sits at the bottom of the scale.
- Maó · 45 km — the island capital, the hospital and the airport
- Alaior · 33 km — cheese, shoes and the university branch
- Cala Morell · 9 km — the cove and the Bronze Age necropolis
Ciutadella de Menorca sits in Menorca, Balearic Islands, right on the water. The square metre is 37% above the Menorca median: €4 077 against €2 981. From November to March the town empties out: our rating is 2 out of 5. A resort in summer, shuttered bars and thin transport in winter. 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.
Ciutadella de Menorca sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 14.2 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Ciutadella de Menorca beaches and water quality
sourceCiutadella de Menorca has 9 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 9 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 4 of 9 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2021: Playa Sa Caleta.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Gran | 0.7 km | sufficient | — | none since 2000 |
| Playa Sa Caleta | 2.1 km | sufficient | — | 2021 |
| Playa Cala en Blanes | 2.2 km | good | — | none since 1991 |
| Playa Santandria | 2.4 km | excellent | 2 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cala en Forcat | 3.3 km | good | — | none since 1991 |
| Playa Cala Blanca | 3.6 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cala Morell | 7 km | excellent | 4 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa Cala en Bosch | 8.2 km | excellent | 7 seasons | none since 1991 |
| Playa Son Xoriguer | 8.3 km | excellent | 24 seasons | none since 1991 |
Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 1 140 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: Ciutadella de Menorca
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 | 570 €/mo | SERPAVI · 78 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: 1. 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.
- —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- Colombia890
- Italy602
- Morocco324
- France249
- United Kingdom202
- Argentina200
- Ecuador183
- Peru158
- enEnglish~1 200school, 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 MAH
January 2026/2745 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».
Articles that include this place
- Menorca's beaches by water quality: excellent across the island, except near CiutadellaGrades from the European register for every sampling point on Menorca since 1990: the shore near Ciutadella against the rest of the island season by season, a beach with two points and two different grades, a point that stopped being tested, eight municipalities and the sea at our four places month by month.
- Mallorca or Menorca: winter, jobs, rent and prices, measuredSeven places on the two islands, by state data: how much work is left in winter, what tenants pay, the price per square metre on one basis, who the neighbours are, and how far the hospital is.
- Mallorca or Majorca: one island, two spellings — and what the numbers sayIt is the same island, and the official name is Mallorca. Then the part no spelling guide covers: of the places we cover there, only the capital stays open in winter, and the water varies beach by beach.
- Where are the Balearic Islands? Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and FormenteraSpain, not a country of their own. Which island is where and how far from Barcelona and Valencia, why winter splits the islands, the sea month by month, and the water at each island's beaches.
- Cost of living in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza: spending, rent and pay from government dataWhat island households spend and on what, what tenants pay in twelve towns on three islands, and what people here earn — with the survey's margin of error, and no guessed baskets.
- Where property is cheapest on the Spanish coast, on a single price basisThe housing ministry's appraised value, ranked by coast and by town, with the price of a 70 m² flat and local incomes alongside. Asking prices get a list of their own: the two bases never share a ranking.
Where to look next
- Alaior2 600 €/m²
- Maó / Mahón2 981 €/m²
- Es Castell3 000 €/m²
- Altea3 423 €/m²
- Guardamar del Segura3 363 €/m²
- Orihuela Costa3 348 €/m²