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Moraira Playa la Ampolla beach in Teulada Alicante at Mediterranean Spain
Costa Blanca · Teulada-Moraira, Alicante

Moraira

3Winter liveability / 5To the sea 200 mTo the airport 75 min · ALCPer m² 3 956 €

Moraira is not a town of its own but the seaside part of Teulada: the town hall and all the paperwork are uphill, four kilometres from the water. The village grew out of a fishing settlement beside an old watch castle. Its own church appeared in the 1870s, and Moraira only became a separate parish in 1974 — yesterday, by local standards. The fishing past is not decoration: the market still works and five boats are based in the harbour. Behind the village lie eight kilometres of shore, mountains and vineyards that have made sweet wine for centuries.

There are no tall buildings here, only villas on the slopes, and that costs: Moraira is one of the most expensive places on the Costa Blanca. About half the residents are foreign, mostly Dutch, British and German. A curious line from the council's own report: two thirds of the people who come are not overnight tourists at all but day visitors from elsewhere in Alicante province. The price of building in villas is distance. There is no school and no clinic in the village, the hospital is twenty-five minutes away and Alicante airport an hour and a quarter. Nobody lives here without a car.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Jávea · 14 km — the bay under Montgó, schools and the hospital
  • Calpe · 12 km — the Ifach rock and the tram station
  • Dénia · 25 km — ferries to the islands and the hospital
Resaleestimate
3 956€/m²
+10.7% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
4 800€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
1500€/mo
Populationestimate
12 912
Foreign residents 45%
Winter humidity
65%
Sunshine hours per year
2 830h
Rent, 1 bed
1150€/mo
International schools
0
Internet
350Mbps

Moraira sits in Teulada-Moraira, Alicante, right on the water. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter. Fast internet at a median of 350 Mbps: remote work is not a problem here.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
48min by car
Hospital de Denia
Dénia · 29.3 km · public
Terrainsource
steep
Centre at 105 m, 105 m of elevation change
over 80 m of change — stairs and switchbacks; hard without a car or a lift
Car-freeour rating
2/5
hard without a car
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 0

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
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Tourist load

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On the map

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom1 150 €/mo
2 bedrooms1 500 €/mo
3 bedrooms≈ 1 950 €/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

estimate

International 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.

3

Renting without a Spanish contract

How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.

  • —45% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
  • —A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
  • —Prices rising 10.7% 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
56.4%
7,299 of 12,932 · Teulada

That covers the whole municipality of Teulada. The card above shows our estimate for the town itself, 45 %: the town and the municipality are settled differently, and the padrón is not published for the town alone.

  • United Kingdom2 158
  • Colombia1 091
  • Netherlands658
  • Germany544
  • Morocco455
  • Belgium323
  • Romania223
  • Bulgaria213
Communities and services in their language
  • nlDutchschool, doctors or lawyers in the languageDutch buyers now outnumber British as the top nationality purchasing property in Moraira
  • enEnglishschool, doctors or lawyers in the language
  • deGermanschool, 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 2026/2775 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

Appointment for the TIE· Alicantefrom reports
2
You can book in six places: Alicante, Benidorm, Dénia, Elche, Orihuela and Torrevieja. There are more free slots here than in Valencia, 131 counted over summer 2026, yet the wait is four to eight weeks and getting in is very hard. In June 2026 a police union called the six-officer documentation unit in Torrevieja a collapse, and some cases were moved to Elche and Orihuela. Slots appear in the morning and vanish within minutes.
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».

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