Algeciras, Cádiz: population, climate, prices

Cádiz, Andalusia · 126,589 inhabitants (1 Jan 2025)

Living in Algeciras

Algeciras is a mid-sized city of 126,589 inhabitants on the coast in Cádiz (Andalusia), with mild winters and warm summers (January nights 10.2°C, August afternoons 25.5°C). Winter nights are mild for Spain: 10.2°C on average in January, warmer than 92% of the towns compared. Summers stay moderate: August afternoons average 25.5°C, cooler than 92% of the towns. Year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US leave from Gibraltar Airport (GIB), 10 km away. Against that, public waiting lists in Andalusia are long (173 days on average for planned surgery); August is humid (dew point 19.3°C), so the heat feels sticky. Around 2055, Spain's official climate scenarios put August afternoons here at about 26.6°C and the number of warm nights at 56 a year.

Each sentence is chosen by where the town ranks among the 333 places compared on that measure (top or bottom 20%); the numbers are the ones in the sections below, from the sources named there.

About Algeciras

Algeciras is a city and a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. With a registered population as of 2020 of 123,078, it is the most populated municipality of the Campo de Gibraltar. The city is located in the western shore of the Bay of Gibraltar opposite the Rock of Gibraltar, around the mouth of the Río de la Miel, now mostly culverted in its lower course, near the southernmost end of the Iberian Peninsula and continental Europe and the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Buying: appraised price

1,475 €/m²

Last 4 quarters to 2026 Q2, 1,650 valuations. 1 year 16.0%, 5 years 40.7%.

Renting: typical apartment

500 €/month

6.77 €/m² per month for a typical 81 m² (2024 contracts). 5 years 21.1%. Houses: 501 €/month.

Safety: recorded crime

34.5 per 1,000

Conventional crime 2025 (Spain ≈ 41). Home burglaries 0.36, violent robbery 0.45, theft 4.9 per 1,000. 1 year -3.9%.

Sea

1.3 km

Straight-line distance from the town centre to the coast.

Getting there

Nearest airport: Gibraltar Airport (GIB), 10 km, 5 destinations
Direct to Amsterdam: Málaga airport, 105 km (year-round)
Direct to Brussels (Zaventem or Charleroi): Málaga airport, 105 km (year-round); summer only from Jerez, 87 km
Direct to London: Gibraltar airport, 10 km (year-round)
Direct to Paris: Málaga airport, 105 km (year-round)
Direct to Frankfurt: Málaga airport, 105 km (year-round); summer only from Jerez, 87 km
Direct to the US: Lisbon airport, 439 km (year-round); summer only from Málaga, 105 km
Train station: Algeciras (0.3 km)
Fastest train to Madrid: 5 h 29
Fastest train to Barcelona: no direct train

Distances are straight-line. Flights as listed in airport route tables on 4 Oct 2026; train times from Renfe's timetable (Iryo and Ouigo not included).

Healthcare

Nearest public general hospital: Hospital Punta de Europa (in town, 270 beds)
Nearest large public hospital (500+ beds, most specialties): Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar (88 km away, in Cádiz, 740 beds)
Nearest private general hospital: Hospital Quirón Campo de Gibraltar (7 km away, in Barrios, Los, 77 beds)
General hospitals within 25 km: 3
Waiting time for planned surgery (Andalusia): 173 days on average; 32.2% wait more than 6 months (Spain: 121 days)
Waiting time for a first specialist visit: 136 days on average; 57.1% wait more than 60 days (Spain: 102 days)

Ministry of Health, National Hospital Catalogue 2025 (situation on 31 Dec 2024); general hospitals only. Distances are straight-line to the hospital's municipality. Residents registered in Spain use public hospitals; non-EU applicants for some visas must have private health insurance. Waiting times are for the whole region (public health service, 31 Dec 2025), as reported by each region to the Ministry of Health (SISLE-SNS); private insurance usually avoids most of the wait.

International schools

Nearest international school: Myland International School Tarifa (curriculum not stated), Tarifa, 19.1 km
International schools within 25 km: 5
Nearest by curriculum (within 100 km): British 42 km · American 41 km · French 65 km · German 72 km · Nordic 41 km

Within 30 km (up to five):

School	Curriculum	Levels in the register	Where	Distance
Myland International School Tarifa	curriculum not stated	infant, primary, secondary	Tarifa	19 km
International School at Sotogrande	curriculum not stated	infant, primary, secondary	San Roque	20 km
International Montessori School of Sotogrande	curriculum not stated	infant, primary	Guadiaro	23 km
La Casa de La Luz	curriculum not stated	infant, primary	Facinas	23 km
Alma Forest	curriculum not stated	infant	San Enrique	24 km

Ministry of Education, register of non-university schools (RCD), October 2026: every school authorised to teach a foreign curriculum in Spain, without the business, arts and hairdressing schools in the same list and without schools for one nationality (Japanese, Libyan, Iraqi, Russian, Panamanian). Curriculum as labelled in the register or clear from the school's name; levels as listed in the register, which leaves them out for some schools. Straight-line distance from the town centre. We do not rate schools: visit, and ask about accreditation and fees.

Who lives here

Population trend: +6.4% in ten years (118,920 in 2015, 126,589 in 2025)
Age: 16.6% aged 65 or over, 17.7% under 16 (2022; Spain: 20.0% and 14.9%)
Local income: 12,564 € net per person per year (2023), 84% of the Spanish average; median 16,450 € per adult-equivalent
Foreign residents: 8.3% of all residents; 2.9% of residents aged 65+ (2022)
Largest nationalities: Moroccan 5.2%; all EU citizens 0.8% (share of all residents, 1 Jan 2022; the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the Nordic countries are not published per town)

INE: population register (Padrón) and household income atlas. Local income is a rough guide to local prices and affluence; Spain publishes no official cost-of-living index for towns.

Within a 10-minute walk of the centre

Everyday essentials on foot: 6 of 6 ✓ 15+ food shops ✓ 3+ pharmacies ✓ 25+ cafés, bars or restaurants ✓ 2+ parks ✓ 3+ bus stops ✓ 2+ libraries, theatres, cinemas or cultural centres
Lively centre: 69 out of 100: how much there is compared with the other 332 places (big cities score highest)

30 food shops (supermarkets, bakeries, greengrocers…)
14 pharmacies
5 doctors, clinics or hospitals
54 cafés, bars and restaurants
49 parks and gardens
33 bus stops
8 libraries, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres
2 market places

Counted in OpenStreetMap within 800 m of the town centre, taken as the point OpenStreetMap marks as the town's centre, moved at most 500 m to the busiest nearby spot (for a few spread-out municipalities without such a point: the busiest spot near the official coordinate). OpenStreetMap is kept by volunteers: very complete in most Spanish towns, thinner in some. “Everyday essentials” only asks whether the basics are there, so a small town can score 6 of 6; “lively centre” ranks each count among all 333 places and averages them, so it mostly reflects size. Large municipalities with several centres (Lorca, Oleiros, Ames…) can score low because their official centre is a small village.

Holiday lets and beaches

Tourist apartments: 132 (0.24% of all homes; Spain 1.28%), 0.5 tourist beds per 100 residents (May 2026)
Blue Flag beaches: 1 in town; 5 within 30 km

Tourist apartments: INE count of homes listed on Airbnb, Booking and Vrbo. A high share means busy summers and pressure on rents. Blue Flag 2026 (ADEAC): beaches meeting water-quality, safety and service standards; this includes some lake and river beaches. Distances are straight-line between town centres.

Water

River basin: Cuencas Mediterraneas Andaluzas
Reservoirs now: 64.3% full (week of 2026-09-29); the same week in the previous 10 years averaged 39.2%
Worst week 2016-2025: 18.2% full (2024-02-06)
Weeks below 40% full, 2016-2025: 39% of all weeks

Ministry for the Ecological Transition, weekly hydrological bulletin: all reservoirs over 5 hm³ in the basin. Low reservoirs are what led to drought restrictions in Catalonia (2023-24) and Andalusia (2022-24). Some basins (Segura) also rely on transfers and desalination, so their reservoir level alone overstates the risk of taps running dry.

What the rankings say

Not named in the rankings we track.

Climate

● average daily high ● average nightly low ■ rainy days (1 mm or more). These are 1991-2020 averages, not record temperatures: a hot spell will be warmer and a cold night colder than these values.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average daily high, °C	15.4	15.6	16.8	18.0	20.4	22.7	24.9	25.5	23.9	21.4	18.1	16.5
Average nightly low, °C	10.2	10.6	12.0	13.1	15.2	17.8	19.5	20.3	19.0	16.7	13.4	11.8
Rain, mm	76	73	72	61	27	6	2	1	20	81	88	94
Rainy days (1 mm or more)	7.2	7.2	6.7	6.4	4.1	1.0	0.3	0.2	2.1	6.7	7.1	8.4
Humidity, %	77	79	79	78	77	76	78	79	79	79	79	80
Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0

The year in numbers

Köppen climate class: Csa: Hot-summer Mediterranean
Summer mugginess (August average dew point): 19.3°C – oppressive
Days reaching 25 °C / 77 °F: 44 a year (estimate)
Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F: 2 a year
Days reaching 35 °C / 95 °F: 0 a year (estimate)
Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more): 37 a year (estimate)
Frost nights (0 °C / 32 °F or less): 0 a year
Average humidity: 78%

Dew point measures how sticky the air feels: under 13 °C (55 °F) feels dry, 16-18 °C (61-64 °F) muggy, over 18 °C oppressive. For comparison, Davis, California (also Köppen Csa) has a summer dew point of about 11 °C. "Typical hottest day" is the 1991-2020 average of each year's single hottest day. Estimates are counted from daily satellite data adjusted to this place's averages; checked against AEMET's own 30 °C counts they are usually within 4 days a year.

1991-2020 averages, AEMET station TARIFA (6001), 18.7 km away; temperatures adjusted to the town's altitude. © AEMET.

Around 2055 (projection)

August average high: 26.6°C: +1.0 °C compared with today (models range from 0.5 °C to 1.6 °C)
Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more): 56 a year, +16 (models: +7 to +28)
Frost nights: 0 a year (+0)
Rainy days (1 mm or more): 47 a year, -10 (models: -18 to -4)
Rain amount: -10% over the year: summer -40%, winter -5%
Sunlight reaching the ground: +0.1% (models: -1.2% to +1.2%); no official sunshine-hours projection exists

Spain's official climate scenarios (Escenarios-PNACC 2024, AEMET regionalisation of 11 global climate models, ~5 km grid), middle emissions scenario SSP2-4.5: average change from 2011-2040 to 2041-2070, added to today's 1991-2020 values above. The range shows the lowest and highest of the 11 models. Rain: the same models regionalised by CSIC (DeepESD). Sunlight: EURO-CORDEX regional models (RCP4.5). A projection, not a forecast. Read: Spain around 2055, region by region →

Questions people ask

Where is Algeciras?

Algeciras is in the province of Cádiz (Andalusia), Spain, on the coast. The nearest airport is Gibraltar Airport (GIB), 10 km away.

How many people live in Algeciras?

126,589 registered residents on 1 January 2025 (INE), +6.4% in ten years.

What is the climate of Algeciras?

January afternoons average 15.4°C and nights 10.2°C; August afternoons 25.5°C.

Is Algeciras safe?

Recorded conventional crime in Algeciras was 34.5 offences per 1,000 residents in 2025, about average for Spain (national rate about 41). Home burglaries: 0.36 per 1,000.

How hot is Algeciras in summer?

August afternoons average 25.5°C (1991-2020), with 37 nights a year above 20 °C and 0 days of 35 °C or more.

How cold is Algeciras in winter?

January afternoons average 15.4°C and January nights 10.2°C, with 0 frost nights a year.

Is there a hospital in Algeciras?

Yes: Hospital Punta de Europa, a public general hospital with 270 beds. Planned surgery in Andalusia waits 173 days on average.

Can you fly direct from Algeciras to Amsterdam or London all year?

Yes. Gibraltar Airport (GIB) (10 km away) has year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US.

What does it cost to rent or buy in Algeciras?

A typical apartment (81 m²) rented for 500 € a month in 2024 contracts. Homes were appraised at 1,475 €/m² on average over the last four quarters, 40.7% in five years.

Nearby and similar towns

Nearest towns in this comparison: La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz, 10 km), San Roque (Cádiz, 11 km), Ceuta (Ceuta, 30 km), Estepona (Málaga, 43 km), Marbella (Málaga, 67 km)
Most similar towns (summer heat, winter nights, rainy days, home prices, size): San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Santa Lucía de Tirajana (Las Palmas), San Fernando (Cádiz), Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona)

Distances are straight-line between town centres. Similarity is the distance in standardised values of the five measures.