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Maritime promenade and beach in balearic town of Santa Eularia des Riu, Ibiza, Spain.
Ibiza and Formentera · Ibiza, Balearic Islands

Santa Eulària des Riu

2Winter liveability / 5To the sea 200 mTo the airport 25 min · IBZPer m² 5 200

Santa Eulària des Riu is Ibiza's second municipality by population, with around forty-two thousand people. Besides the town it includes the inland villages of Sant Carles de Peralta and Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera. The name comes from the only river in the Balearics, which reaches the sea here.

Santa Eulària is reckoned the calmest part of the island. No clubs, a family crowd. Its winter score is above Sant Antoni's and below Ibiza town's — some places do close for the winter, and February rather than August is when to check which ones. The hospital is fifteen minutes away, the airport twenty-five, and there are two international schools. The square metre costs more than in Sant Antoni and less than in the town itself.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Ibiza · 15 kmthe island capital, the hospital and the airport
  • Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera · 10 kmthe village in the middle of the island
  • Cala Llonga · 6 kmthe cove between pine slopes
Resaleestimate
5 200€/m²
+8% price growth yoy
asking price: what sellers ask
New build
6 200€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
1500€/mo
Populationsource
42 496
Foreign residents 30.8%
Winter humidity
67%
Sunshine hours per year
2 830h
Rent, 1 bed
1100€/mo
International schools
2
Internet
400Mbps

Santa Eulària des Riu sits in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, 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. 30.8% of residents are foreign nationals per the census: Spanish is not the only language you will hear on the street. The airport is 25 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
21min by car
Hospital Can Misses
Eivissa · 15.9 km · public
Terrainsource
steep
Centre at 8 m, 92 m of elevation change
over 80 m of change — stairs and switchbacks; hard without a car or a lift
Car-freeour rating
3/5
possible without a car, with caveats
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 23

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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15
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26
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27
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23
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20
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17
D

Tourist load

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2
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5
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On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
893€/mo
75th percentile
1 200€/mo
Flat size
77

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 2 635 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 1 500 € 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: Santa Eulalia del Río

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom1 100/mo
2 bedrooms1 500/mo
3 bedrooms1 950/mo
Median of active leases, 2024893/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: 2. 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.

  • 30.8% foreign residents — income from abroad is routine for landlords here
  • A community with its own services: agencies have dealt with foreigners before
  • Prices rising 8% 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
30.8%
13,080 of 42,496
  • Italy2 110
  • United Kingdom1 542
  • Romania1 130
  • Germany1 116
  • France755
  • Netherlands733
  • Morocco654
  • Paraguay643
Communities and services in their language
  • deGerman~9 000school, doctors or lawyers in the languageLarge, long-settled German community: agents, doctors, shops
  • enEnglish~4 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 2026/2725 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
1

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».

Where to look next

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