Mediterranean · Castellón
Costa del Azahar
The orange-blossom coast: cheaper than neighbouring Daurada and Valencia at a comparable climate. Almost no expat infrastructure — daily life runs in Spanish.
4towns
in the base
1 946median
€/m²
2alive
in winter
5months
above 20 °C
4prices from the
official bulletin
What it costs
7th cheapest coast of 26
6
cheaper
Costa de Almería
1 760€/m²
1 150–2 651 by town
7
this coast
Costa del Azahar
1 946€/m²
1 497–2 728 by town
8
pricier
Costa de Valencia
2 075€/m²
1 612–2 957 by town
Costa del Azahar sea temperature by month
Average sea surface temperature, °C, off each town for 2015–2024. Next to each name: how many months a year the water is above 20 °C.
Benicàssim5 mo above 20 °C
15
J
14
F
14
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
19
N
16
D
Castellón de la Plana5 mo above 20 °C
15
J
14
F
14
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
19
N
16
D
Peñíscola5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
14
F
14
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
19
N
16
D
Vinaròs5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
14
F
14
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
19
N
16
D
NOAA OISST satellite series on a grid of about 25 km: it averages a bay or cold water off a cape with the open sea.
Where it is
Towns, cheapest first
sourced price for 4 of 4
300 m to sea
Castellón
Vinaròs
1 497€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina2/5
Internet380
Nomad month1 198 €
4.5 km to sea2 sch.
Castellón
Castellón de la Plana
1 511€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free4/5
No nómina2/5
Internet480
Nomad month1 234 €
100 m to sea
Castellón
Peñíscola
2 380€/m²asking
Winter1/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free2/5
No nómina2/5
Internet350
Nomad month1 370 €
300 m to sea
Castellón
Benicàssim
2 728€/m²asking
Winter3/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina1/5
Internet400
Nomad month1 438 €
Articles that include this coast
- 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.
- Best places to live in coastal Spain: five lists, not one rankingAlive in winter, longer swimming, no car needed, cheaper, with children — five sorts of the base by measured fields. A single ranking does not exist.
- Winter sun in Spain: 30 towns that stay open all winterWinter-sun lists usually rank the weather. This one ranks what stays open: January against the summer peak from Spain's social security data, plus sea months, rent and the drive to the airport.
- Which sea is Spain on? The Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay — and how warm each getsThe limits of each sea from the International Hydrographic Organization, the sea of every coast worked out from our places' coordinates, and the water temperature month by month, from the Canaries to the Costa Brava.
- Renting long-term on the Spanish coast: what the law says and what tenants payThe five-year renewal and the seasonal lease, article by article. And what tenants on each coast pay under live leases: from tax records, not listings.
- Which Spanish coast is best? 26 coasts on the same numbersJanuary, warm sea, beach water, price per square metre, damp, neighbours and the airport run: all 26 coasts on the same fields. Every question has a different winner.
Median rather than mean: a single expensive spot skews the average for the whole coast. Airports: VLC.