
Mediterranean · Barcelona
Costa Barcelona
Maresme and Garraf on either side of Barcelona. The only stretch where you can live by the sea and work in a major city with a train every half hour.
5towns
in the base
4 327median
€/m²
5alive
in winter
5months
above 20 °C
5prices from the
official bulletin
What it costs
24th cheapest coast of 26
23
cheaper
Mallorca
4 000€/m²
3 792–4 200 by town
24
this coast
Costa Barcelona
4 327€/m²
2 512–4 924 by town
25
pricier
Basque Coast
4 656€/m²
3 524–6 994 by town
Costa Barcelona 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.
Badalona5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
13
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
22
J
25
J
26
A
25
S
22
O
18
N
16
D
Barcelona5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
13
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
22
J
25
J
26
A
25
S
22
O
18
N
16
D
Castelldefels5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
14
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
22
J
26
J
27
A
25
S
22
O
19
N
16
D
Mataró5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
13
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
22
J
25
J
26
A
25
S
21
O
18
N
16
D
Sitges5 mo above 20 °C
14
J
14
F
14
M
15
A
18
M
22
J
26
J
27
A
25
S
22
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 5 of 5
500 m to sea1 sch.
Maresme, Barcelona
Mataró
2 512€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free4/5
No nómina2/5
Internet500
Nomad month1 470 €

500 m to sea1 sch.
Barcelonès, Barcelona
Badalona
2 769€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free5/5
No nómina3/5
Internet520
Nomad month1 588 €

1 km to sea3 sch.
Baix Llobregat, Barcelona
Castelldefels
4 327€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free5/5
No nómina3/5
Internet520
Nomad month2 014 €

1 km to sea12 sch.
Barcelona
Barcelona
4 595€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free5/5
No nómina3/5
Internet650
Nomad month2 122 €

300 m to sea2 sch.
Garraf, Barcelona
Sitges
4 924€/m²appraised
Winter4/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free5/5
No nómina4/5
Internet500
Nomad month2 218 €
Articles that include this coast
- 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.
- 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.
- The coast without a carA resort stretched along a highway and an old port with a dense centre are different ways of living. Size is not what separates them.
- International schools: where a family has a choiceSchool decides the town more firmly than price. What is counted is the choice, not the quality — we have no honest ranking and cannot build one.
- 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.
- Spain's minimum wage and average salary in 2026, with sources — and what rent takes on the coastThe 2026 minimum wage from the decree, and the mean and median from INE — every figure linked to its primary source. Then how much of the wage lease rents take, coast by coast.
Median rather than mean: a single expensive spot skews the average for the whole coast. Airports: BCN.