Ibiza (Eivissa)
Ibiza is the main town of the island of the same name and its port. Fifty-five thousand people live in the town, a hundred and sixty thousand on the island. The old quarter, Dalt Vila, stands on a hill behind sixteenth-century walls and is on the World Heritage list; below it is the harbour, with ferries to the mainland and to Formentera. The island is small — forty-one kilometres north to south and fifteen east to west — but it is divided into five municipalities, and they are very different from one another.
It is known for its clubs. That is true for exactly four months a year. The other eight the island lives differently, and this is where the municipalities diverge. The town itself handles winter well: hospital, schools, an airport a quarter of an hour away. Formentera empties almost completely, and you get there by ferry. Housing is dear: by the ministry's appraisal a square metre here costs more than in Palma, and people do not buy it for the winter. Around a third of residents are foreign, and not from one country but from many at once.
- Formentera · 22 km — the neighbouring island by ferry, the quietest in the group
- Santa Eulària des Riu · 15 km — the island's second town, calmer than the capital
- Sant Antoni de Portmany · 15 km — the west coast and the sunsets, the loudest place in summer
Ibiza (Eivissa) sits in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, right on the water. You can live here without a car: our rating is 4 out of 5, rare on the Spanish coast. 28.1% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. The airport is 15 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database.
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.
Ibiza sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 5.3 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Ibiza beaches and water quality
sourceIbiza has 3 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 4 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 1 of 3 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2007: Playa Talamanca.
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 Figueretes | 0.3 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa D’en Bossa | 1.8 km | excellent | 35 seasons | none since 1991 |
| Playa Talamanca | 2.8 km | sufficient | — | 2007 |
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 5 503 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 1 900 € 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: Eivissa
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 1 400 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 1 900 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 2 470 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 915 €/mo | SERPAVI · 80 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
from registries- Morna International CollegeSanta Gertrudis de Fruitera, Santa EulàriaBritishEnglish · 3–18 · private
- Lycée français international d'IbizaCan Llambies, Sant Jordi de ses SalinesFrenchFrench · 3–18 · privateAEFE-affiliated, 24,000 m² campus in Can Llambies
Checked against registries and school sites: 2026-09-17. Fees are on each school's site: nobody publishes them centrally.
Renting without a Spanish contract
How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.
- —28.1% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
- —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
- —Prices rising 9.5% 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- Italy2 219
- Paraguay2 053
- Colombia1 667
- Romania1 397
- Morocco1 273
- Ecuador997
- Argentina715
- Brazil569
- enEnglish~8 000school, doctors or lawyers in the languageInternational rather than one dominant nationality: club industry, hospitality, digital nomads
- deGerman~3 000school, 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 IBZ
January 2026/2715 min to the airport- Netherlands2
- United Kingdom1
- France1
- Germany1
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».
Month by month
Air, sea, how busy it gets and what stays open — for each month on its own.
Articles that include this place
- 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.
- 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.
- Mallorca's beaches by water quality: each beach's record since 1990Every Mallorca beach with an official sampling point: how many seasons in a row its water has been excellent, when it was last poor, and whose record is too short to judge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Where to look next
- Sant Josep de sa Talaia5 600 €/m²
- Santa Eulària des Riu6 800 €/m²
- Sant Antoni de Portmany4 400 €/m²
- Barcelona4 595 €/m²
- Sant Antoni de Portmany4 400 €/m²
- Castelldefels4 327 €/m²
- San Sebastián / Donostia5 186 €/m²
- Sitges4 924 €/m²
- Barcelona4 595 €/m²