Explore Costa Blanca
The Alicante-province coast, with Benidorm, Calpe, Jávea and Torrevieja among the towns covered.
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About Costa Blanca
The Costa Blanca lies entirely within Alicante province, and the towns priced here sit closer together than the coast's reputation implies. Between the dearest and the cheapest of the ten whole municipalities lies about two thirds. Across the places priced on the Costa del Sol the gap is about four and a third times, so budget separates these towns far less than the transport between them does.
The tram divides the coast into three. Line 1 runs from Alicante Luceros to Benidorm Intermodal through El Campello and Villajoyosa. Line 9 runs from Benidorm to Denia, with stations at Altea and Calpe on the way. The two do not run through, so the northern towns reach Alicante only by changing at Benidorm. The tram does not run south of Alicante at all: of the places priced here, Torrevieja, Guardamar del Segura and Orihuela Costa have neither train nor tram, and the Cercanias stations nearest to them are inland.
It suits a buyer who wants a working city within reach more than one chasing a wide ladder of prices. That ladder is on the Costa del Sol. On the Costa Calida, which covers Aguilas, Cartagena, Mazarron and Murcia here, Cartagena has Larga Distancia and Media Distancia services while Aguilas has no rail service of any kind. And a buyer who would rather have a city than a resort is describing Alicante itself, which sits near the bottom of this range.
What to know first
- The dearest of the ten municipalities asks about two thirds more than the cheapest
- All twelve places priced here carry the same reference month, July 2026
- Tram Lines 1 and 9 do not run through; the change is at Benidorm
- Torrevieja, Guardamar del Segura and Orihuela Costa have neither train nor tram
- Benidorm has no public hospital; both hospitals in the municipality are private
- Moraira is a nucleus of Teulada and Orihuela Costa a district of Orihuela
Asking prices compared
Ranked on asking price per m². Municipalities and sub-municipal entries are listed apart, because a district cannot be ranked against the municipality that contains it.
| Place | Asking price / m² | Population | Price tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole municipalities | |||
| Jávea | 4.177 €/m² | 30.642 | Mid |
| Benidorm | 3.788 €/m² | 77.327 | Mid |
| Altea | 3.518 €/m² | 24.592 | Mid |
| Calpe | 3.457 €/m² | 27.616 | Mid |
| Dénia | 3.303 €/m² | 44.726 | Mid |
| El Campello | 3.208 €/m² | 31.419 | Mid |
| Villajoyosa | 3.031 €/m² | 37.449 | Mid |
| Alicante | 2.705 €/m² | 366.221 | Mid |
| Guardamar del Segura | 2.658 €/m² | 18.564 | Mid |
| Torrevieja | 2.536 €/m² | 98.533 | Mid |
| Districts, nuclei and urbanisations | |||
| Moraira Nucleus of Teulada | 4.481 €/m² | 12.912 | Mid |
| Orihuela Costa District of Orihuela | 3.062 €/m² | 27.929 | Mid |
How the prices spread
Take the ten whole municipalities first, because that is the only range on this coast that compares like with like. Javea asks the most and Torrevieja the least, and the gap between them is about two thirds. Widen it to all twelve places priced here and the factor is still under two. Across the places priced on the Costa del Sol the range runs to about four and a third times, though the two are not measured on identical footings: the top of that range is a district rather than a town, and the bottom of it, Alora, is a June 2026 reading where everything here is July.
Every one of the twelve carries the same Idealista reference month, July 2026. That reads like housekeeping and is not: it means the ranking below has no unpriced entry, no province split and no odd month out, so it can be read straight down.
The dearest place priced here is not a municipality at all. Moraira, a nucleus of Teulada, sits above Javea, and Orihuela Costa, a district of Orihuela rather than a town, sits mid-table. Among the ten municipalities, Javea, Benidorm, Altea, Calpe and Denia lead, El Campello and Villajoyosa follow, and Alicante, Guardamar del Segura and Torrevieja are the cheapest. The largest of the twelve by population sitting near the bottom of the range is worth a pause.
One municipal figure hides more here than usual, and how much varies sharply. Ten districts are published for Alicante and ten for Calpe, nine for Javea, seven for Benidorm and six for Moraira, but only five of the seven listed for Villajoyosa, and Torrevieja has no district prices published at all. Alicante's own districts differ nearly threefold, with Virgen del Remedio - Juan XXIII the cheapest published, and no cheapest area is published inside Orihuela Costa.
Who each part suits
Buyers who want rail
Line 1 links these four along one corridor, and Line 3 runs out to El Campello and terminates there. Line 4 does not serve it, so the line matters as much as the town. Villajoyosa has four Line 1 stops inside the municipality.
Buyers weighing two airports
Javea's record calls Alicante-Elche and Valencia comparable and notes that is unusual here. Neither Javea nor Moraira has a tram station of its own: the nearest to Javea is Gata de Gorgos, and the Line 9 stop named Teulada serves the inland village.
Buyers at the cheaper end
These three are the cheapest priced here. Torrevieja has no district prices published at all and Alicante's own districts differ nearly threefold, so a town figure tells you less at this end, and neither southern town has any rail.
Buyers who accept a change
Line 9 has a station in each, but it terminates at Benidorm rather than continuing to Alicante, so reaching the capital means changing onto Line 1. Altea's station is a short walk from the old town; Calpe's sits away from the beaches.
Buyers choosing between two coasts
The gap between the dearest and cheapest municipality here is about two thirds, against about four and a third times across the places priced on the Costa del Sol. The choice between towns here turns on transport rather than on budget.
Cities in Costa Blanca
Browse properties by city
Torrevieja
Costa Blanca
2.536 €/m² · Population 98.533
Alicante
Costa Blanca
2.705 €/m² · Population 366.221
Dénia
Costa Blanca (Marina Alta)
3.303 €/m² · Population 44.726
Benidorm
Costa Blanca
3.788 €/m² · Population 77.327
Jávea
Costa Blanca
4.177 €/m² · Population 30.642
Altea
Costa Blanca
3.518 €/m² · Population 24.592
Calpe
Costa Blanca
3.457 €/m² · Population 27.616
Orihuela Costa
Costa Blanca
3.062 €/m² · Population 27.929
Moraira
Costa Blanca
4.481 €/m² · Population 12.912
Guardamar del Segura
Costa Blanca
2.658 €/m² · Population 18.564
El Campello
Costa Blanca
3.208 €/m² · Population 31.419
Villajoyosa
Costa Blanca
3.031 €/m² · Population 37.449
The case for
- A tram corridor into Alicante
Line 1 links El Campello, Villajoyosa and Benidorm with Alicante Luceros across twenty stations, and Line 3 also runs out to El Campello before terminating there. Four of the twelve places priced here sit on that corridor.
- A second airport within reach of Javea
Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernandez is the airport recorded for every town here, but Javea's own record puts Valencia about 113 km north and calls the two comparable, which it notes is unusual on this coast.
- A narrow ladder between the towns
Between the dearest and the cheapest of the ten municipalities lies about two thirds, where the Costa del Sol runs to about four and a third times across the places priced on it. A buyer here chooses on transport and character rather than on budget tier.
- District figures under half the headline prices
Ten districts are published for Alicante and ten for Calpe, nine for Javea and seven for Benidorm, so in half the places priced here a buyer can compare areas within a town rather than only towns against each other.
- One reference month across every entry
All twelve places carry a July 2026 asking price, with nothing unpriced and no odd month out. The ranking can be read without checking which figure belongs to which month, which is not true of every Spanish coast.
The case against
- Two tram lines that do not join up
Line 1 ends at Benidorm and Line 9 starts there, so Altea, Calpe and Denia reach Alicante only by changing. For Lines 1 and 3 no frequency and no operating hours are published by FGV, so the tram is harder to plan around than the map suggests.
- The southern towns have no rail at all
Torrevieja, Guardamar del Segura and Orihuela Costa have neither train nor tram. The nearest Cercanias stations to Torrevieja, San Isidro-Albatera-Catral and Callosa de Segura, are both well inland, and the station named for Orihuela sits in the inland city.
- A closed railway the maps still show
No train has run on Cercanias Murcia/Alicante line C2 since 1 October 2021. Only the C-1 from Murcia del Carmen and the C-3 from Sant Vicent Centre still terminate at Alicante Terminal, so the network reaching this coast is smaller than a map implies.
- Benidorm has no public hospital
Both hospitals inside the municipality are private. The public referral hospital for the Marina Baixa is in Villajoyosa, the next town south, so the nearest public bed is outside the town a buyer would be buying in.
- Torrevieja crossed into majority foreign, and not as expected
On INE's continuous count foreign nationals were just under half at the start of 2025 and above half a year later. The largest group on the town register for May 2026 is Ukrainian, ahead of Colombian and Russian, so a buyer expecting a British enclave finds something else.
Questions buyers ask
- How much do prices vary along this coast?
- Less than most people expect. Across the ten whole municipalities priced here, the dearest asks about two thirds more than the cheapest. Include the two places that are not municipalities and the factor is still under two. Across the places priced on the Costa del Sol the range runs to about four and a third times, although its top entry there is a district rather than a town. Either way the Costa Blanca is the narrower of the two, which makes transport rather than budget the thing that shortens a list here.
- Are all twelve places covered here towns?
- No, and it changes the headline. Ten are whole municipalities. Moraira is a nucleus of the municipality of Teulada. Orihuela Costa is a district of Orihuela, one of eleven Juntas de Distrito, which are residents' participation bodies chaired by a councillor with no budget and no delegated powers; there is a Concejalia de Costa and a municipal office at Plaza del Oriol 1, Playa Flamenca. The headline price range is kept to the ten municipalities, because a range across all twelve is not a range across towns.
- Can I reach Alicante by tram from Altea, Calpe or Denia?
- Not without changing. Line 1 runs from Alicante Luceros to Benidorm Intermodal by way of El Campello and Villajoyosa. Line 9 runs from Benidorm to Denia by way of Altea and Calpe. The two do not run through, so a journey from the northern towns to Alicante means changing at Benidorm. Javea has no station of its own, the nearest being Gata de Gorgos on Line 9, and Moraira has none either: the Line 9 stop named Teulada serves the inland village rather than the coast.
- Which places here have no train or tram at all?
- Torrevieja, Guardamar del Segura and Orihuela Costa. Torrevieja does not appear on the Renfe Cercanias Murcia/Alicante map, and the nearest C-1 stations, San Isidro-Albatera-Catral and Callosa de Segura, are both well inland. Orihuela Costa has no railway on the coast: the station called Orihuela Miguel Hernandez, Adif 62002, sits in the inland city. For Guardamar del Segura the nearest station named is Alicante Terminal.
- Is Torrevieja really majority foreign?
- By nationality, yes, though the operations differ. On INE's continuous count foreign nationals were just under half of the residents at the start of 2025 and above half a year later, while the Censo Anual for the same January date puts the share just over half. What is not true is the assumption that follows. On the ayuntamiento's own register for May 2026 the largest group is Ukrainian, ahead of Colombian and Russian, not British. That it is the most foreign municipality in Spain is not verifiable and is not claimed here.
- Which towns here have the most foreign residents?
- The shares are measured in ways that do not line up, so the towns cannot be ranked against each other. What survives on its own terms is Calpe, which on Urban Audit figures for January 2024 was the only Spanish municipality above twenty thousand inhabitants where foreign nationals were a majority, with l'Alfas del Pi and Javea the runners-up. Torrevieja crossed half after that date on a different operation. Alicante inverts what buyers expect, its largest foreign groups being Colombian and Algerian.
- Where is the nearest hospital if I buy in Benidorm?
- Not in Benidorm. Both hospitals inside the municipality are private, and the public referral hospital for the Marina Baixa is in Villajoyosa, the next town south. Orihuela Costa is the sharper case: it falls under the Torrevieja health department rather than Orihuela's, so its reference hospital is in Torrevieja rather than in the city whose district it is. Neither is obvious from a map, so it is worth checking which department a town belongs to before a shortlist hardens.
- How reliable are the foreign-resident figures on these towns?
- They are reliable individually and misleading side by side. The share on each town comes from a different INE operation at a different reference date: Urban Audit figures for January 2024 on five towns, the Censo Anual for January 2025 on four, and a municipal nationality count for January 2022 on Moraira. Ranking them would rank three statistical operations rather than ten places. Denia and Orihuela Costa carry no recorded basis for their entries, so neither belongs in a comparison either.
Where you might be better off elsewhere
This coast is easy to like and easy to get wrong, so here is where it might not suit. If a wide ladder of prices is what you want, the Costa del Sol has one: about four and a third times across the places priced there, against about two thirds here. Check the transport town by town before you commit, though: Mijas has no Cercanias station inside the municipality, the C-1 terminating at Fuengirola next door, and the tram at Velez-Malaga has not run since June 2012. On the Costa Calida, which covers Aguilas, Cartagena, Mazarron and Murcia here, Cartagena has Larga Distancia and Media Distancia services, while Aguilas has no rail service of any kind, not Cercanias and not Media Distancia. And if what you actually want is a city rather than a coast, Alicante is already on this list, sits near the bottom of the range, and has its own districts differing nearly threefold. Whatever you weigh, weigh figures that were built the same way.