The 20 best-rated places to buy in Spain
Ranked on the balanced profile: climate and risk, local vitality, amenities and access, property value, and the market — weighted as a buyer with no single overriding priority would weight them.
- Drawn
- Jul 31, 2026
- Ranked from
- 2,266 municipalities
- Excluded, provisional
- 0
- Scoring model
- 2026.12-momentum-v1
| # | Municipality | Province | Population | Overall score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Alcázares | Murcia | 20,408 | 88/100 | A+ |
| 2 | San Pedro del Pinatar | Murcia | 29,674 | 86/100 | A+ |
| 3 | Ingenio | Las Palmas | 32,905 | 85/100 | A+ |
| 3 | Orpesa | Castelló | 12,640 | 85/100 | A+ |
| 3 | San Miguel de Abona | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 23,960 | 85/100 | A+ |
| 6 | Cunit | Tarragona | 16,385 | 84/100 | A+ |
| 6 | Calafell | Tarragona | 32,624 | 84/100 | A+ |
| 6 | Salt | Girona | 34,491 | 84/100 | A+ |
| 6 | Adeje | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 50,021 | 84/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Arona | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 87,793 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Santiago del Teide | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 12,582 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Yaiza | Las Palmas | 18,842 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Arrecife | Las Palmas | 70,811 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Santa Lucía de Tirajana | Las Palmas | 78,584 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Torre-Pacheco | Murcia | 41,479 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Moncofa | Castelló | 8,339 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 10 | Granadilla de Abona | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 58,752 | 83/100 | A+ |
| 18 | Tías | Las Palmas | 21,613 | 82/100 | A+ |
| 18 | Antigua | Las Palmas | 14,164 | 82/100 | A+ |
| 18 | Salou | Tarragona | 31,491 | 82/100 | A+ |
What this table leaves out, and why
- 0 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
- 5,951 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
- Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
- The ranking is within Spain, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
- This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.
Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.
Using it
Free to reproduce, in whole or in part, with attribution to Terragrado and a link to this page or to the methodology. The CSV carries the same rows plus the edition, the model version and a link to each town's page, so a reader can check any line of it.
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