Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza: population, climate, prices
Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands · 29,761 inhabitants (1 Jan 2025)
Living in Sant Josep de sa Talaia
Sant Josep de sa Talaia is a small town of 29,761 inhabitants 5 km from the sea in Balearic Islands, with cool winters and hot summers (January nights 6.6°C, August afternoons 29.1°C). 21.6% of residents are foreign nationals (11.7% among the over-65s), so English-speaking services are common. The nearest international school (Lycée Français International D'Ibiza, French curriculum) is 0.3 km away. Year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US leave from Ibiza Airport (IBZ), 9 km away. Against that, recorded crime is high (101.1 per 1,000 residents; Spain about 41, inflated by crimes against the many visitors); the centre is thin on everyday shops and services (1 of 6 essentials within a 10-minute walk); August is humid (dew point 21.2°C), so the heat feels sticky. Around 2055, Spain's official climate scenarios put August afternoons here at about 31.3°C and the number of warm nights at 87 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 Sant Josep de sa Talaia
Sant Josep de sa Talaia is a municipality in the South West of Ibiza. The municipality is part of the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The total number of inhabitants in the municipality (2006) is 19,244.
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Getting there
- Nearest airport
- Ibiza Airport (IBZ), 9 km, 9,138,224 passengers in 2025, 91 destinations
- Direct to Amsterdam
- Ibiza airport, 9 km (year-round)
- Direct to Brussels (Zaventem or Charleroi)
- Palma airport, 143 km (year-round); summer only from Ibiza, 9 km
- Direct to London
- Ibiza airport, 9 km (year-round)
- Direct to Paris
- Ibiza airport, 9 km (year-round)
- Direct to Frankfurt
- Palma airport, 143 km (year-round); summer only from Ibiza, 9 km
- Direct to the US
- Barcelona airport, 272 km (year-round); summer only from Palma, 143 km
- Train station
- no long-distance station within 15 km
- Fastest train to Madrid
- no direct train
- 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 Can Misses (12 km away, in Eivissa, 382 beds)
- Nearest large public hospital (500+ beds, most specialties)
- Hospital Universitari Son Espases (137 km away, in Palma, 839 beds)
- Nearest private general hospital
- Policlínica Nuestra Sra. del Rosario (12 km away, in Eivissa, 68 beds)
- General hospitals within 25 km
- 2
- Waiting time for planned surgery (Balearic Islands)
- 105 days on average; 22.4% wait more than 6 months (Spain: 121 days)
- Waiting time for a first specialist visit
- 71 days on average; 44.4% 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
- LYCÉE FRANÇAIS INTERNATIONAL D'IBIZA (French), Sant Jordi de ses Salines, 0.3 km
- International schools within 25 km
- 2
- Nearest by curriculum (within 100 km)
- French 0.3 km
Within 30 km (up to five):
| School | Curriculum | Levels in the register | Where | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LYCÉE FRANÇAIS INTERNATIONAL D'IBIZA | French | infant, primary, secondary | Sant Jordi de ses Salines | 0.3 km |
| MORNA INTERNACIONAL COLLEGE | curriculum not stated | infant, primary, secondary | Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera | 12 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
- +15.9% in ten years (25,674 in 2015, 29,761 in 2025)
- Age
- 12.2% aged 65 or over, 15.3% under 16 (2022; Spain: 20.0% and 14.9%)
- Local income
- 17,830 € net per person per year (2023), 119% of the Spanish average; median 23,450 € per adult-equivalent
- Foreign residents
- 21.6% of all residents; 11.7% of residents aged 65+ (2022)
- Largest nationalities
- Italian 3.8%, British 3.4%, Moroccan 1.8%, French 1.5%, Romanian 1.3%; all EU citizens 10.2% (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
- 1 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
- 8 out of 100: how much there is compared with the other 332 places (big cities score highest)
- 3 food shops (supermarkets, bakeries, greengrocers…)
- 0 pharmacies
- 0 doctors, clinics or hospitals
- 7 cafés, bars and restaurants
- 1 parks and gardens
- 10 bus stops
- 0 libraries, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres
- 0 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
- 931 (5.94% of all homes; Spain 1.28%), 24.7 tourist beds per 100 residents (May 2026)
- Blue Flag beaches
- nearest in Santa Eulària des Riu, 22 km; 7 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
No reservoir data: the Balearic and Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla get most of their water from groundwater and desalination plants, which this bulletin does not cover.
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 | 14.5 | 14.7 | 16.5 | 18.7 | 21.8 | 25.8 | 28.5 | 29.1 | 26.4 | 22.7 | 18.2 | 15.5 |
| Average nightly low, °C | 6.6 | 6.6 | 8.2 | 10.3 | 13.2 | 17.2 | 20.2 | 21.1 | 18.4 | 15.0 | 10.6 | 7.7 |
| Rain, mm | 40 | 30 | 22 | 27 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 63 | 57 | 60 | 52 |
| Rainy days (1 mm or more) | 5.0 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.5 |
| Sunshine, hours per day | 5.3 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 9.1 | 10.5 | 10.9 | 9.9 | 7.9 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 5.0 |
| Humidity, % | 75 | 73 | 72 | 70 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 76 |
| Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 3.6 | 14.3 | 19.2 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
The year in numbers
- Köppen climate class
- BSk: Cold semi-arid
- Summer mugginess (August average dew point)
- 21.2°C – oppressive
- Typical hottest day of the year
- 33.5°C
- Typical coldest night of the year
- 0.5°C
- Days reaching 25 °C / 77 °F
- 108 a year (estimate)
- Days reaching 30 °C / 86 °F
- 42 a year
- Days reaching 35 °C / 95 °F
- 0 a year (estimate)
- Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more)
- 49 a year (estimate)
- Frost nights (0 °C / 32 °F or less)
- 0 a year
- Overcast days
- 48 a year
- Average humidity
- 71%
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 IBIZA, AEROPUERTO (B954), 9.5 km away; temperatures adjusted to the town's altitude. © AEMET.
Around 2055 (projection)
- August average high
- 31.3°C: +1.2 °C compared with today (models range from 0.5 °C to 2.4 °C)
- Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more)
- 87 a year, +15 (models: +7 to +24)
- Frost nights
- – a year (+0)
- Rainy days (1 mm or more)
- 72 a year, -5 (models: -14 to +1)
- Rain amount
- -7% over the year: summer -26%, winter -4%
- Sunlight reaching the ground
- -0.2% (models: -0.7% to +0.6%); 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 Sant Josep de sa Talaia?
Sant Josep de sa Talaia is in the province of Balearic Islands, Spain, 5 km from the sea. The nearest airport is Ibiza Airport (IBZ), 9 km away.
How many people live in Sant Josep de sa Talaia?
29,761 registered residents on 1 January 2025 (INE), +15.9% in ten years.
What is the climate of Sant Josep de sa Talaia?
January afternoons average 14.5°C and nights 6.6°C; August afternoons 29.1°C. 7.7 hours of sunshine a day and 44 rainy days a year (AEMET 1991-2020).
Is Sant Josep de sa Talaia safe?
Recorded conventional crime in Sant Josep de sa Talaia was 101.1 offences per 1,000 residents in 2025, high for Spain (national rate about 41). Home burglaries: 4.87 per 1,000. Part of it is crimes against visitors, which count against the residents.
How hot is Sant Josep de sa Talaia in summer?
August afternoons average 29.1°C (1991-2020), with 49 nights a year above 20 °C and 0 days of 35 °C or more.
How cold is Sant Josep de sa Talaia in winter?
January afternoons average 14.5°C and January nights 6.6°C, with 0 frost nights a year.
Is there a hospital in Sant Josep de sa Talaia?
The nearest public general hospital is Hospital Can Misses in Eivissa, 12 km away. Planned surgery in Balearic Islands waits 105 days on average.
Can you fly direct from Sant Josep de sa Talaia to Amsterdam or London all year?
Yes. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) (9 km away) has year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US.
What does it cost to rent or buy in Sant Josep de sa Talaia?
A typical apartment (68 m²) rented for 905 € a month in 2024 contracts.
Nearby and similar towns
- Nearest towns in this comparison
- Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands, 7 km), Eivissa (Balearic Islands, 12 km), Santa Eulària des Riu (Balearic Islands, 22 km), Xàbia/Jávea (Alicante, 99 km), Dénia (Alicante, 103 km)
- Most similar towns (summer heat, winter nights, rainy days, home prices, size)
- Algemesí (Valencia), Oliva (Valencia), Sueca (Valencia), Pineda de Mar (Barcelona), La Vall d'Uixó (Castellón)
Distances are straight-line between town centres. Similarity is the distance in standardised values of the five measures.