Mediterranean · Balearic Islands
Ibiza and Formentera
Spain's most expensive rents and its sharpest housing shortage: seasonal workers live in vans. Buying is possible; renting barely is.
5towns
in the base
5 600median
€/m²
0alive
in winter
5months
above 20 °C
2prices from the
official bulletin
What it costs
26th cheapest coast of 26
25
cheaper
Basque Coast
4 656€/m²
3 524–6 994 by town
26
this coast
Ibiza and Formentera
5 600€/m²
4 400–6 800 by town
Ibiza and Formentera 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.
Formentera5 mo above 20 °C
16
J
15
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
D
Ibiza (Eivissa)5 mo above 20 °C
15
J
15
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
D
Sant Antoni de Portmany5 mo above 20 °C
15
J
15
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
D
Sant Josep de sa Talaia5 mo above 20 °C
15
J
15
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
D
Santa Eulària des Riu5 mo above 20 °C
16
J
15
F
15
M
16
A
19
M
23
J
26
J
27
A
26
S
23
O
20
N
17
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 2 of 5100 m to sea1 sch.
Ibiza
Sant Antoni de Portmany
4 400€/m²asking
Winter2/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina3/5
Internet400
Nomad month1 992 €
100 m to sea3 sch.
Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Ibiza (Eivissa)
5 435€/m²appraised
Winter3/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free4/5
No nómina3/5
Internet450
Nomad month2 498 €
4 km to sea1 sch.
Ibiza
Sant Josep de sa Talaia
5 600€/m²asking
Winter2/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free1/5
No nómina2/5
Internet400
Nomad month2 228 €
1.5 km to sea
Formentera
Formentera
6 500€/m²asking
Winter1/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina3/5
Internet200
Nomad month2 355 €
200 m to sea2 sch.
Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Santa Eulària des Riu
6 800€/m²appraised
Winter2/5
Sea5 mo
Car-free3/5
No nómina3/5
Internet400
Nomad month2 072 €
Articles that include this coast
- Best time to visit Ibiza: the water, the price of a night and how much of the island is open each monthTwelve months on Ibiza and Formentera from the weather service's normals, sea temperature and two years of hotel statistics: when hotels open and close, who stays in winter, why September is cheaper than June with warmer water, and what keeps working in January.
- 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.
- Ibiza and Formentera beaches by water quality: each beach's record since 1990Two islands in one European register entry, and very different water: where excellent has held since the record began, where it slipped and when, and what each beach got last season.
- 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.
- 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.
- Seven mistakes people make moving to coastal SpainEvery mistake counted across 132 coastal places: how many empty out in winter, where it is damp, where a car is unavoidable and where the sea is warm for three months.
Median rather than mean: a single expensive spot skews the average for the whole coast. Airports: IBZ.