Garrucha
Garrucha is a small coastal municipality in the east of Almería province: around eleven thousand residents, ninety-one kilometres from the capital. It is wedged between Vera and Mojácar, and by area it is one of the most compact municipalities on the whole Spanish coast in our base.
Garrucha lives on its port. It is a working one: a fishing fleet and the export of gypsum quarried in the hills nearby. For anyone moving that means the town does not close for the winter the way the resorts beside it do — it has a trade of its own that does not depend on the season. The promenade and the beach are within walking distance, housing is cheap, and it is dry and sunny. The drawbacks: it is small, the hospital is 28 minutes away and Almería airport over an hour, and there are no international schools.
- Vera · 6 km — the town next door and its beach
- Mojácar · 8 km — the white town on the hillside
- Carboneras · 30 km — the shore and nature park to the south
Garrucha sits in Levante Almeriense, Almería, right on the water. You can live here without a car: our rating is 4 out of 5, rare on the Spanish coast. 29.7% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. The airport is 110 minutes away: meeting visitors and flying out both cost you half a day.
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.
Garrucha sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 8.3 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Garrucha beaches and water quality
sourceGarrucha has 3 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 4 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 3 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 1990: Playa Posito Garrucha.
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” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playazo Garrucha | 0.5 km | excellent | 5 seasons | none since 2021 |
| Playa Posito Garrucha | 0.5 km | excellent | 35 seasons | 1990 |
| Playa Garrucha | 1.1 km | excellent | 30 seasons | none since 1990 |
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 543 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 750 € 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: Garrucha
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 550 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 750 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 980 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 408 €/mo | SERPAVI · 82 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.
- —29.7% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
- —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
- —Prices rising 9% a year — the landlord picks, and the first filter is a nómina
- —Stock goes to tourist lets: long leases are scarce and competed for
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- Peru484
- Romania458
- Morocco452
- Senegal326
- Colombia305
- United Kingdom97
- Ukraine81
- Pakistan78
- enEnglish~1 200school, doctors or lawyers in the language
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 2026/27110 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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