Alicante/Alacant · Comunidad Valenciana
Xàbia
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby.
Living in Xàbia
Xàbia — Jávea — is a prosperous villa town of 31,000 on the Costa Blanca's easternmost cape, an attractive spread of hillside houses between a pleasant old town, a fine beach and idyllic cliff-backed coves like Cala Portitxol. It is majority-foreign: fewer than half its residents were born in Spain, with over 4,300 British nationals and more than a thousand Dutch-born — one of the largest Dutch communities on the coast — plus Colombians and Germans. The climate is warm and dry, summers around 31°C, mild winters near 12°C. A hospital at Dénia is about twenty minutes away; the main drawback is the airport, an hour and a half off at Alicante.
Xàbia's Spainability Scores — by who's moving
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities. Each score is Xàbia's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 95% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick for American retirees — 21 min to a hospital and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 12.5°C
- Drive to a hospital 21 min
- U.S.-born residents 7.66 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €7.14/m²·mo
Higher than 93% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick for a retiring couple — 21 min to a hospital and a health centre close by.
- Winter average temp 12.5°C
- Drive to a hospital 21 min
- Surgical wait (region) 88 days
- Registered long-let rent €7.14/m²·mo
Higher than 88% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — 8 km from the sea and a settled international community.
- Schools in town 14
- PISA maths (region) 473
- Registered long-let rent €7.14/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 21 min
Higher than 88% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick for a remote-working couple — a settled international community and 30,817 people.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 94%
- Drive to nearest airport 90 min
- Registered long-let rent €7.14/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.3°C
Higher than 81% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — a settled international community and 30,817 people.
- Registered long-let rent €7.14/m²·mo
- Net income per person €12,533
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.3°C
Higher than 55% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
An attractive, prosperous hillside-villa town near Cabo de la Nao, with a fine beach, pleasant old town and idyllic cove beaches nearby. A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — 8 km from the sea and a settled international community.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 31.3°C
- Rainy days a year 39 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 154
- Winter average temp 12.5°C
What is the climate like in Xàbia?
Xàbia's reported winter average is 12.5°C, while July–August highs reach 31.3°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 12.5°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 4.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.3°C bottom 34% of 8,131 towns 1.1°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 39 days top 4% of 8,088 towns 44% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 154 bottom 6% of 8,033 towns 97 above the Spanish average (56)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 6.06 ha/km² bottom 6% of 8,132 towns 3.75 ha/km² above the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 5 bottom 21% of 8,132 towns 1 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 25.1% bottom 24% of 8,130 towns 2.2% above the Spanish average (22.9%)
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How good is healthcare in Xàbia?
Xàbia's nearest health centre is 2.9 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 21 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 21 min top 24% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 2.9 km top 15% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 88 days #6 of 17 regions, −15 days vs national 18% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Xàbia?
Xàbia has 14 schools in town; the nearest international school is 5 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 14 top 4% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 5 km top 3% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 473 #10 of 17 regions, −6 vs national 8 below the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Xàbia?
Xàbia's reported home price is €3,685/m², while registered long-let rent is €7.14/m²·mo.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €3,685/m² appraisal (valor tasado) bottom 8% of 306 towns 67% more than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €7.14/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €5.01/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €9.44/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- 2.33% bottom 1% of 306 towns
- Net income per person
- €12,533 bottom 24% of 8,059 towns 14% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 33.2% top 15% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Xàbia?
the Valencia region has a co-official regional language, and public schools commonly use regional-language immersion or bilingual models rather than Spanish-only teaching. The exact classroom language depends on the school and programme, so confirm the current model before enrolling. See the the Valencia region region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Xàbia?
Xàbia's reported population is 30,817.
Who lives here
- Population
- 30,817
- Born in Spain
- 47% 41.8% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 26.5% 22.7% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 7.66 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Xàbia?
Xàbia is a reported 90 min drive from the nearest airport, with 89% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 90 min bottom 34% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% bottom 48% of 8,132 towns 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 94% top 45% of 8,132 towns 11% above the Spanish average (83%)
Numbers: Spainability town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Registered long-let rent is SERPAVI declared-contract data; its p25–p75 values show the observed band. Registered-rent yield is gross, excludes costs and is never imputed. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Xàbia fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Xàbia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Benidorm, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Xàbia for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Request recent comparable sales before relying on the appraisal figure.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
- Ask an insurer how the mapped flood or wildfire exposure affects cover.
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