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A view of Cala Vedella beach in Sant Josep de Sa Talaia, in Ibiza Island, Balearic Islands, Spain

Sant Josep de sa Talaia

2Winter liveability / 5To the sea 4 kmTo the airport 10 min · IBZPer m² 5 600 €

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.

Worth a trip nearby
  • 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
Resaleestimate
5 600€/m²
+9.5% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
7 000€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
2000€/mo
Populationsource
30 702
Foreign residents 24.4%
Winter humidity
70%
Sunshine hours per year
2 850h
Rent, 1 bed
1400€/mo
International schools
1
Internet
400Mbps

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

Nearest hospitalsource
20min by car
Hospital Can Misses
Eivissa · 14.6 km · public
Terrainsource
steep
Centre at 202 m, 104 m of elevation change
over 80 m of change — stairs and switchbacks; hard without a car or a lift
Car-freeour rating
1/5
car essential
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 14

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

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Average sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 8.8 km from the centre.

Tourist load

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Sant Josep de sa Talaia beaches and water quality

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Sant 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.

BeachFrom the centreGrade 2025“Excellent” in a rowLast “poor”
Playa Badia Sant Antoni5.2 kmgood—2018
Playa Cala Tarida5.3 kmexcellent36 seasonsnone since 1990
Playa Cala Moli5.4 kmexcellent17 seasonsnone since 2009
Playa Es Pinet5.4 kmsufficient—none since 2009
Playa Port des Torrent5.5 kmsufficient—none since 2007
Playa Cala Vadella6.1 kmgood—none since 1990
Playa Cala Jondal6.3 kmexcellent33 seasonsnone since 1993
Playa Cala Bassa6.9 kmgood—none since 1990
Playa Cala d’Hort7 kmexcellent33 seasonsnone since 1993
Playa Cala Comte7.8 kmexcellent33 seasonsnone since 1993
Playa D’en Bossa10.7 kmgood—none since 1990
Playa Salines12.1 kmexcellent36 seasonsnone since 1990
Playa Es Cavallet12.8 kmexcellent17 seasonsnone 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

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Median
905€/mo
75th percentile
1 200€/mo
Flat size
68m²

This 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 bedroom1 400 €/mo
2 bedrooms2 000 €/mo
3 bedrooms≈ 2 600 €/mo
Median of active leases, 2024905 €/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: 1. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

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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
Foreign residents on the padrón
24.4%
7,499 of 30,702
  • Italy1 383
  • United Kingdom945
  • Germany491
  • France461
  • Morocco444
  • Paraguay439
  • Romania429
  • Argentina387
Communities and services in their language
  • 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

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».

A man with a bandana observes the rock island Es Vedrà from Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza.
Cove and cliffs · Sant Josep de sa Talaia

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Verified: 2026-09-14 · where the data comes from