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Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza: population, climate, prices

Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands · 42,479 inhabitants (1 Jan 2025)

Living in Santa Eulària des Riu

Santa Eulària des Riu is a small town of 42,479 inhabitants on the coast in Balearic Islands, with cool winters and hot summers (January nights 7.9°C, August afternoons 30.4°C). 29.2% of residents are foreign nationals (21.5% among the over-65s), so English-speaking services are common. Winter nights are mild for Spain: 7.9°C on average in January, warmer than 81% of the towns compared. Year-round direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Paris and the US leave from Ibiza Airport (IBZ), 19 km away. Against that, August is humid (dew point 21.2°C), so the heat feels sticky; 3.4% of all homes are holiday lets (Spain 1.3%), so summers are busy and rents are under pressure; 77 nights a year stay above 20 °C, which makes sleeping without air conditioning hard in summer. Around 2055, Spain's official climate scenarios put August afternoons here at about 31.2°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 Santa Eulària des Riu

Getting there

Nearest airport

Ibiza Airport (IBZ), 19 km, 9,138,224 passengers in 2025, 91 destinations

Direct to Amsterdam

Ibiza airport, 19 km (year-round)

Direct to Brussels (Zaventem or Charleroi)

Palma airport, 121 km (year-round); summer only from Ibiza, 19 km

Direct to London

Ibiza airport, 19 km (year-round)

Direct to Paris

Ibiza airport, 19 km (year-round)

Direct to Frankfurt

Palma airport, 121 km (year-round); summer only from Ibiza, 19 km

Direct to the US

Barcelona airport, 261 km (year-round); summer only from Palma, 121 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 (116 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

MORNA INTERNACIONAL COLLEGE (curriculum not stated), Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera, 10.8 km

International schools within 25 km

2

Nearest by curriculum (within 100 km)

French 22 km

Within 30 km (up to five):

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

+18.6% in ten years (35,812 in 2015, 42,479 in 2025)

Age

13.5% aged 65 or over, 14.6% under 16 (2022; Spain: 20.0% and 14.9%)

Local income

16,994 € net per person per year (2023), 113% of the Spanish average; median 22,750 € per adult-equivalent

Foreign residents

29.2% of all residents; 21.5% of residents aged 65+ (2022)

Largest nationalities

Italian 4.7%, British 4.2%, German 3.0%, Romanian 2.8%, French 1.9%; all EU citizens 16.2% (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

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

38 out of 100: how much there is compared with the other 332 places (big cities score highest)

• 20 food shops (supermarkets, bakeries, greengrocers…)
• 6 pharmacies
• 4 doctors, clinics or hospitals
• 104 cafés, bars and restaurants
• 16 parks and gardens
• 11 bus stops
• 2 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

771 (3.38% of all homes; Spain 1.28%), 14.0 tourist beds per 100 residents (May 2026)

Blue Flag beaches

4 in town; 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.

The year in numbers

Köppen climate class

BSh: Hot semi-arid

Summer mugginess (August average dew point)

21.2°C – oppressive

Typical hottest day of the year

34.8°C

Typical coldest night of the year

1.8°C

Days reaching 25 °C / 77 °F

131 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)

77 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), 17.8 km away; temperatures adjusted to the town's altitude. © AEMET.

Around 2055 (projection)

August average high

31.2°C: +1.1 °C compared with today (models range from 0.4 °C to 2.1 °C)

Warm nights (low of 20 °C / 68 °F or more)

87 a year, +15 (models: +7 to +25)

Frost nights

0 a year (+0)

Rainy days (1 mm or more)

39 a year, -5 (models: -13 to +1)

Rain amount

-7% over the year: summer -26%, winter -4%

Sunlight reaching the ground

-0.2% (models: -0.5% 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

Nearby and similar towns

Nearest towns in this comparison

Eivissa (Balearic Islands, 12 km), Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands, 20 km), Sant Josep de sa Talaia (Balearic Islands, 22 km), Calvià (Balearic Islands, 107 km), Palma (Balearic Islands, 116 km)

Most similar towns (summer heat, winter nights, rainy days, home prices, size)

Mislata (Valencia), Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga), Catarroja (Valencia), Borriana/Burriana (Castellón), Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga)

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

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