Costa Blanca in October
Around 20 °C by day, sea 22.9 °C. Warm enough to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 5.
October on the Costa Blanca 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.
The Costa Blanca is a shore where neighbouring towns differ a great deal. Torrevieja: €2,241 a metre, 49.5% foreign residents, winter score 4 out of 5. Alicante half an hour away: €2,272 a metre, but a city of 365,586 with a university, an airport and a winter score of 5. Jávea in the north: €3,489 a metre and 95 minutes to that same airport. October is a good month to drive the lot.
Towns nearby in October
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torrevieja | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 241appraised |
| Alicante | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 272appraised |
| Santa Pola | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 604appraised |
| El Campello | 20 | 22.9 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 824appraised |
| Dénia | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 989appraised |
| Benidorm | 20 | 23 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3 213appraised |
| Calpe / Calp | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 258appraised |
| Orihuela Costa | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3 348asking |
| Guardamar del Segura | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3 363asking |
| Altea | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 423asking |
| Jávea / Xàbia | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 489appraised |
| Moraira | 20 | 22.9 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3 956asking |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 35 rainy days a year, 66% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.