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Ibiza and Formentera · Ibiza, Balearic Islands

Ibiza (Eivissa)

3Winter liveability / 5To the sea 100 mTo the airport 15 min · IBZPer m² 6 800

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 here is the most expensive on any island in our base, 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.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Formentera · 22 kmthe neighbouring island by ferry, the quietest in the group
  • Santa Eulària des Riu · 15 kmthe island's second town, calmer than the capital
  • Sant Antoni de Portmany · 15 kmthe west coast and the sunsets, the loudest place in summer
Resaleestimate
6 800€/m²
+9.5% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
8 200€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
1900€/mo
Populationsource
54 628
Foreign residents 28.1%
Winter humidity
66%
Sunshine hours per year
2 850h
Rent, 1 bed
1400€/mo
International schools
3
Internet
450Mbps

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

Nearest hospitalsource
5min by car
Hospital Can Misses
Eivissa · 1.6 km · public
Terrainsource
rolling
Centre at 11 m, 28 m of elevation change
25–80 m of change — the climb from the sea to the centre is noticeable on foot
Car-freeour rating
4/5
comfortable without a car
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 43

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.

Sea temperature

5 months 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

Tourist load

1
J
1
F
1
M
2
A
3
M
4
J
5
J
5
A
4
S
2
O
1
N
1
D

On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
915€/mo
75th percentile
1 225€/mo
Flat size
80

This 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 bedroom1 400/mo
2 bedrooms1 900/mo
3 bedrooms2 470/mo
Median of active leases, 2024915/mo

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

Checked against registries and school sites: 2026-09-17. Fees are on each school's site: nobody publishes them centrally.

3

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
Foreign residents on the padrón
28.1%
15,347 of 54,628 · Eivissa
  • Italy2 219
  • Paraguay2 053
  • Colombia1 667
  • Romania1 397
  • Morocco1 273
  • Ecuador997
  • Argentina715
  • Brazil569
Communities and services in their language
  • 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

Appointment for the TIE· Illes Balearsfrom reports
2
In Ibiza in February 2026 the police station said it plainly: slots are released twice a month and there are not enough of them. One resident had been unable to book for two years. The Balearic immigration office is the worst staffed in Spain: 38 people against 75 posts, and none at all in Ibiza. Formentera residents have to travel to Ibiza. In Palma the wait is two to four weeks, summer is the hardest season, and new slots appear around eight in the morning.
1 — no slots for weeks, 5 — freely available. Checked 2026-09-17
Coworking within 3 km
not on the map
Dog beaches within 8 km
not on the map
Vets within 5 km
0

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».

Formentera beach illetas white sand turquoise water perfect Balearic paradise
TONO BALAGUER · Depositphotos

Month by month

Air, sea, how busy it gets and what stays open — for each month on its own.

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Verified: 2026-09-13 · where the data comes from