El Campello
El Campello is a small town thirteen kilometres north of Alicante, with around twenty-nine thousand residents. A long promenade runs along its shore, and on the La Illeta headland stand excavations: an Iberian and Roman settlement, one of the oldest on this coast, with the remains of fish-salting tanks.
The main convenience is the tram. The line runs along the coast from Alicante, and the centre is half an hour away without a car. That is rare on the Costa Blanca, where almost everywhere is hard without one and everything is built around it. In summer the town is full and in winter quieter, but Alicante is next door and life does not stop. Housing costs more than in Santa Pola and less than in Alicante itself.
- Alicante · 13 km — the city, the airport and hospitals
- Benidorm · 35 km — the resort that works all year
- Villajoyosa · 20 km — the painted houses and the chocolate factories
El Campello sits in L’Alacantí, Alicante, right on the water. You can live here without a car: our rating is 4 out of 5, rare on the Spanish coast, and the town has its own train station. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. Fast internet at a median of 450 Mbps: remote work is not a problem here.
Hospital, terrain, getting around
Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.
El Campello sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 6.2 km from the centre.
Tourist load
El Campello beaches and water quality
sourceEl Campello has 7 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 8 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 7 were graded excellent. No beach here has been graded “poor” since testing began in 1990.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa del Carrer de la Mar | 0.8 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de l’Almadrava | 1.6 km | excellent | 28 seasons | none since 1998 |
| Playa de Mutxavista | 2.5 km | excellent | 17 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de l’Amerador | 2.7 km | excellent | 4 seasons | none since 2022 |
| Playa de Morro Blanc | 3.7 km | excellent | 4 seasons | none since 2022 |
| Playa Cala d’Enmig | 4 km | excellent | 2 seasons | none since 2024 |
| Playa Cala La Nuza | 8.7 km | excellent | 18 seasons | none since 2008 |
Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 1 619 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 1 050 € for a two-bedroom.
The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.
Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: El Campello
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 800 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 1 050 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 370 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 654 €/mo | SERPAVI · 83 m² |
Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.
Schools nearby
estimateInternational schools counted in the base: 0. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.
Renting without a Spanish contract
How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.
- —Prices rising 11.5% a year — the landlord picks, and the first filter is a nómina
This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.
Who lives here
INE 2025- France773
- United Kingdom717
- Italy640
- Ukraine606
- Algeria568
- Russia450
- Romania317
- Colombia293
- frFrench~773French citizens in the 2025 census — the largest foreign group; the nearest French school and services are in Alicante
- enEnglish~717UK citizens in the 2025 census; English-language services are in Alicante
Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.
Winter direct flights from ALC
January 2026/2730 min to the airport- United Kingdom21
- other countries17
- Germany12
- Poland10
- Norway7
- Italy6
- Sweden5
- France5
- Belgium4
- Netherlands3
- Switzerland3
- Ireland2
- Denmark2
- Czechia2
- Finland1
- Austria1
Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.
Paperwork and practicalities
From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».
Articles that include this place
Where to look next
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- Benidorm3 213 €/m²
- Santa Pola2 604 €/m²
- Lloret de Mar2 393 €/m²
- Cullera2 391 €/m²
- Peñíscola2 380 €/m²
- Castro Urdiales2 812 €/m²
- Badalona2 769 €/m²
- A Coruña2 762 €/m²