Gandía
Gandia is a town in the south of Valencia province with around eighty thousand residents. It too comes in two parts. The historic centre, with the palace of the Borja dukes, sits three kilometres from the water; Gandia Platja, a resort strip with a long sandy beach, grew up separately.
The key thing for anyone moving is the train: a little over an hour to Valencia, which makes Gandia a suburb of a big city rather than a cut-off resort. In summer the coastal part fills with people from Madrid and Valencia; in winter it is quieter, but the town itself works all year — hospital, schools, market. Housing costs less than in Valencia. Around it are rice fields and orange groves, and behind them the hills that separate the coast from the interior.
- Valencia · 70 km — Spain's third city and its airport
- Dénia · 35 km — the port, the Balearic ferries and Montgó
- Oliva · 10 km — the beaches and dunes to the south
Gandía sits in La Safor, Valencia, 3.5 km from the water. The square metre is 26% below the Costa de Valencia median: €1 758 against €2 391. 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. 26% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street.
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.
Gandía sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 18.3 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Gandía beaches and water quality
sourceGandía has 3 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 5 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 3 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2007: Playa de les Marenys de Rafalcaid.
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 de les Marenys de Rafalcaid | 3.6 km | excellent | 8 seasons | 2007 |
| Playa del Nord | 4.2 km | excellent | 30 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa del Ahuir | 6.9 km | excellent | 24 seasons | none since 2002 |
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 4 279 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 800 € 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: Gandia
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 600 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 800 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 040 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 480 €/mo | SERPAVI · 96 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: 1. 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.
- —26% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
- —Prices rising 9% 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- Colombia2 710
- Morocco2 557
- Bulgaria2 391
- Ukraine1 650
- Romania1 353
- Italy1 015
- Venezuela765
- Algeria623
- bgBulgarian~2 500
- arArabic~2 500
- roRomanian~2 000
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 VLC
January 2026/2755 min to the airport- other countries20
- Italy14
- France8
- United Kingdom7
- Germany6
- Poland5
- Netherlands4
- Ireland2
- Belgium2
- Switzerland2
- Portugal2
- Finland1
- Austria1
- Czechia1
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».