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A view of some cliffy caves in Vinaros, in the Costa del Azahar, Spain
Costa del Azahar · Castellón

Vinaròs

5Winter liveability / 5To the sea 300 mTo the airport 110 min · VLCPer m² 1 497 €

Vinaròs is the northernmost town in Castellón province, on the Catalan border, with around twenty-nine thousand residents. It lives on fishing and farming, and is known for the prawns from its harbour, served here as the local speciality.

For anyone moving this is an ordinary working town rather than a resort: there are visitors in summer, but it does not empty in winter because it rests on its own trades. Housing is cheap even by the province's standards. There is a railway station in the town, Castellón is an hour away, Tarragona the same and Barcelona two. The sea here is warm by Mediterranean standards and rain is scarce; the drawback is that large hospitals and an airport are not nearby.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Peñíscola · 25 km — the castle on a rock in the sea
  • Delta de l'Ebre · 40 km — the river delta, rice fields and birds
  • Tarragona · 90 km — the Roman amphitheatre above the sea
Resalesource
1 497€/m²
+11% price growth yoy
appraised value, Ministerio de Vivienda
New build
—
Rent, 2 bed
750€/mo
Populationsource
30 516
Foreign residents 21.9%
Winter humidity
64%
Sunshine hours per year
2 700h
Rent, 1 bed
550€/mo
International schools
0
Internet
380Mbps

Vinaròs sits in Castellón, right on the water. The square metre is 37% below the Costa del Azahar median: €1 497 against €2 380. The airport is 110 minutes away: meeting visitors and flying out both cost you half a day. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
5min by car
Hospital Comarcal de Vinaros
Vinaròs · 3 km · public
Terrainsource
flat
Centre at 5 m, 11 m of elevation change
under 25 m of elevation change within 700 m — pram, bicycle, bad knees all fine
Car-freeour rating
3/5
possible without a car, with caveats
Stations: Vinaròs · bus stops within 1.5 km: 11

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.

Vinaròs sea temperature by month

5 months above 20 °Csource
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16
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26
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23
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19
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16
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Average sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 13.3 km from the centre.

Tourist load

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Vinaròs beaches and water quality

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Vinaròs has 12 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 13 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 12 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 1996: Playa del Clot.

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 de Forti0.2 kmexcellent33 seasonsnone since 1990
Playa del Clot0.6 kmexcellent29 seasons1996
Playa de Fora Forat0.9 kmexcellent18 seasonsnone since 2008
Playa dels Pinets-Fondo de Bola1.1 kmexcellent4 seasonsnone since 2022
Playa de Cossis1.6 kmexcellent20 seasonsnone since 2006
Playa Saldonar2.3 kmexcellent2 seasonsnone since 2024
Playa del Puntal2.6 kmexcellent18 seasonsnone since 2008
Playabarbiguera3.1 kmexcellent2 seasonsnone since 2024
Playa Cala del Pinar3.6 kmexcellent4 seasonsnone since 2022
Playa del Triador4 kmexcellent34 seasonsnone since 1992
Playa Cala de la Foradada4.9 kmexcellent4 seasonsnone since 2022
Playa de les Deveses5.8 kmexcellent4 seasonsnone since 2022

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
415€/mo
75th percentile
500€/mo
Flat size
82m²

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 2 068 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 750 € 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: Vinaròs

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom550 €/mo
2 bedrooms750 €/mo
3 bedrooms≈ 980 €/mo
Median of active leases, 2024415 €/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.

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Renting without a Spanish contract

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

  • —Prices rising 11% a year — the landlord picks, and the first filter is a nómina

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
21.9%
6,672 of 30,516
  • Romania1 569
  • Morocco1 037
  • Colombia652
  • Ukraine433
  • Pakistan394
  • Moldova307
  • France224
  • Germany187
Communities and services in their language
  • roRomanian~1 500
  • arArabic~1 000

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 VLC

January 2026/27110 min to the airport
  • other countries20
  • Italy14
  • France8
  • United Kingdom7
  • Germany6
  • Poland5
  • Netherlands4
  • Ireland2
  • Belgium2
  • Switzerland2
  • Portugal2
  • Finland1
  • Austria1
  • Czechia1

Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.

Paperwork and practicalities

Appointment for the TIE· Castellónfrom reports
4
The only coastal province where the fingerprint appointment is assigned together with the approval itself, as the newspaper El País confirmed in June 2026. Two to three weeks of waiting. The evidence is limited; moderate confidence.
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
Cala de les Llanetes, Platja d'Aiguadoliva
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: 2026-09-14 · where the data comes from