Mediterranean · Murcia
Costa Cálida
The Mar Menor — Spain's warmest and shallowest lagoon. It has a documented history of ecological collapse and fish die-offs worth checking before buying.
6towns
in the base
1 666median
€/m²
5alive
in winter
6months
above 20 °C
5prices from the
official bulletin
What it costs
5th cheapest coast of 26
4
cheaper
Campo de Gibraltar
1 609€/m²
1 350–2 512 by town
5
this coast
Costa Cálida
1 666€/m²
1 448–2 049 by town
6
pricier
Costa de Almería
1 760€/m²
1 150–2 651 by town
Costa Cálida 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.
Águilas5 mo above 20 °C
16
J
15
F
15
M
17
A
19
M
22
J
25
J
27
A
25
S
23
O
19
N
17
D
Cartagena5 mo above 20 °C
16
J
15
F
15
M
17
A
19
M
22
J
25
J
27
A
25
S
23
O
19
N
17
D
Los Alcázares6 mo above 20 °C · estimate
12
J
12
F
13
M
16
A
21
M
25
J
29
J
30
A
27
S
23
O
18
N
14
D
Mazarrón5 mo above 20 °C
16
J
15
F
15
M
17
A
19
M
22
J
25
J
27
A
25
S
23
O
19
N
17
D
San Javier6 mo above 20 °C · estimate
12
J
12
F
13
M
16
A
21
M
25
J
29
J
30
A
27
S
23
O
18
N
14
D
San Pedro del Pinatar6 mo above 20 °C · estimate
12
J
12
F
13
M
16
A
21
M
25
J
29
J
30
A
27
S
23
O
18
N
14
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 6
200 m to sea
Alto Guadalentín, Murcia
Águilas
1 448€/m²appraised
Winter4/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina3/5
Internet400
Nomad month1 056 €
500 m to sea2 sch.
Campo de Cartagena, Murcia
Cartagena
1 479€/m²appraised
Winter5/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free4/5
No nómina2/5
Internet600
Nomad month1 056 €
200 m to sea
Costa Cálida, Murcia
Mazarrón
1 581€/m²appraised
Winter4/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free2/5
No nómina5/5
Internet300
Nomad month1 182 €
100 m to sea1 sch.
Mar Menor, Murcia
Los Alcázares
1 750€/m²asking
Winter4/5
Sea6 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina4/5
Internet400
Nomad month1 114 €
500 m to sea1 sch.
Mar Menor, Murcia
San Javier
1 941€/m²appraised
Winter3/5
Sea6 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina2/5
Internet400
Nomad month1 124 €
300 m to sea
Costa Cálida, Murcia (Mar Menor)
San Pedro del Pinatar
2 049€/m²asking
Winter4/5
Sea6 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina5/5
Internet350
Nomad month1 172 €
Articles that include this coast
- Spain's cleanest beaches: 36 years of EU water testsThe water grade for every bathing point in Spain, every season since 1990: where excellent has held every single year, where the water was poor in the latest season, and how the grade differs from the Blue Flag.
- 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 Britons in Spain actually liveA hundred thousand Britons from the census, broken down by town. The places with the densest community and the places that live in winter are different lists.
- 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.
- 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.
Median rather than mean: a single expensive spot skews the average for the whole coast. Airports: RMU.