
Sant Josep de sa Talaia
Sant Josep de sa Talaia is Ibiza's largest municipality by area, covering the whole south-west of the island, with around thirty thousand residents. The island's highest point is here too — Sa Talaia, four hundred and seventy-five metres. The island airport stands on this municipality's land.
This is the part of the island with the beaches and coves Ibiza is known for. Hence the price: the square metre here is among the dearest on the island. What you pay for it in is inconvenience. The municipality is spread out and the building scattered, and life without a car is close to impossible — we rate it one out of five, the lowest among the places we have written up. The hospital is 20 minutes away, the airport ten. Winter is quiet, as everywhere on the island except the capital.
- Ibiza · 15 km — the island capital, the hospital and the port
- Cala d'Hort · 20 km — the cove facing the Es Vedrà rock
- Sant Josep · 2 km — the village below the island's highest hill
Sant Josep de sa Talaia sits in Ibiza, 4 km from 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. The airport is 10 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database. 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.
Sant Josep de sa Talaia sea temperature by month
5 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 8.8 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Sant Josep de sa Talaia beaches and water quality
sourceSant Josep de sa Talaia has 13 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 14 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 7 of 13 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2018: Playa Badia Sant Antoni.
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 Badia Sant Antoni | 5.2 km | good | — | 2018 |
| Playa Cala Tarida | 5.3 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cala Moli | 5.4 km | excellent | 17 seasons | none since 2009 |
| Playa Es Pinet | 5.4 km | sufficient | — | none since 2009 |
| Playa Port des Torrent | 5.5 km | sufficient | — | none since 2007 |
| Playa Cala Vadella | 6.1 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cala Jondal | 6.3 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa Cala Bassa | 6.9 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cala d’Hort | 7 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa Cala Comte | 7.8 km | excellent | 33 seasons | none since 1993 |
| Playa D’en Bossa | 10.7 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa Salines | 12.1 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Es Cavallet | 12.8 km | excellent | 17 seasons | none since 2009 |
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 1 363 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 2 000 € 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: Sant Josep de sa Talaia
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 1 400 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 2 000 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 2 600 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 905 €/mo | SERPAVI · 68 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.
- —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- Italy1 383
- United Kingdom945
- Germany491
- France461
- Morocco444
- Paraguay439
- Romania429
- Argentina387
- deGerman~2 000school, doctors or lawyers in the language
- enEnglish~2 500school, 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 2026/2710 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».

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Seven mistakes people make moving to coastal SpainEvery mistake counted across 132 coastal places: how many empty out in winter, where it is damp, where a car is unavoidable and where the sea is warm for three months.
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