Lloret de Mar
Lloret de Mar is a resort town on the Costa Brava in Girona province, with forty-three thousand residents. Its layout is unusual: besides the centre, thirty-nine housing estates and villa districts are scattered around it, many of them second homes. The town is therefore spread out, and getting from one edge to the other without a car does not work.
Lloret is known for mass summer tourism, and that shapes everything else. In winter most of what works in season is shut: our winter score for it is among the lowest on the mainland. Nearly forty per cent of residents are foreign, more than in the neighbouring towns. The hospital is 6 minutes away and Girona airport an hour. Anyone thinking of living here should come in February. In August the town looks like a completely different place.
- Girona · 40 km — a real city with a station and a hospital
- Tossa de Mar · 12 km — the fortress above the bay and the cliff road
- Blanes · 8 km — the botanical gardens and the market
Lloret de Mar sits in Costa Brava, Girona, right on the water. From November to March the town empties out: our rating is 2 out of 5. A resort in summer, shuttered bars and thin transport in winter. 38.5% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter.
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.
Lloret de Mar sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 8.6 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Lloret de Mar beaches and water quality
sourceLloret de Mar has 5 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 6 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 5 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 1992: Playa Cala Canyelles.
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 Lloret | 0.3 km | excellent | 5 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de Fenals | 1.1 km | excellent | 4 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa de sa Boadella | 2 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa de Santa Cristina | 2.6 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa Cala Canyelles | 3.1 km | excellent | 23 seasons | 1992 |
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 2 819 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 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: Lloret de Mar
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 700 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 900 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 170 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 517 €/mo | SERPAVI · 63 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.
- —38.5% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
- —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
- —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- Russia2 400
- Ukraine2 197
- India1 280
- Romania1 140
- Morocco984
- Italy739
- Argentina641
- Bulgaria532
- ruRussian~2 500school, doctors or lawyers in the languageLegacy of large Russian charter tourism: some agencies and guides speak Russian
- arArabic~3 000
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 BCN
January 2026/2765 min to the airport- other countries76
- Italy16
- United Kingdom14
- France11
- Germany9
- Poland6
- Netherlands3
- Switzerland3
- Portugal3
- Ireland2
- Belgium2
- Denmark2
- Austria2
- Sweden1
- Norway1
- Finland1
- 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».
Month by month
Air, sea, how busy it gets and what stays open — for each month on its own.
Articles that include this place
- Who already lives there — and why it is not about neighboursA headcount of compatriots and a doctor and lawyer who speak your language are different things. A move runs into the second.
- Which coastal towns are actually alive in winterMost resorts shut down from November to March. Tourists never notice; people moving there notice everything — and no directory measures it.