{"id":108141,"date":"2026-09-01T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/sin-categoria\/ciudades-con-mas-sol-espana-para-vivir\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:59:43","slug":"sunniest-cities-spain-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/lifestyle\/sunniest-cities-spain-to-live\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Living with over 200 days of sunshine a year: the 8 best cities in Spain to move to if you want to escape the cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-color-200\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Almer\u00eda<\/strong> leads in sunshine hours in Spain with 3,200 annually, followed by <strong>Seville<\/strong> and <strong>Murcia<\/strong> with 3,000 hours a year, according to the Reonic insolation study from January 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Buying an 80 m\u00b2 home in the sunniest capitals ranges from <strong>\u20ac151,273 in Almer\u00eda<\/strong> (\u20ac1,891\/m\u00b2) to <strong>\u20ac424,280 in Barcelona<\/strong> (\u20ac5,304\/m\u00b2), according to data from the Fotocasa Real Estate Index.<\/li>\n<li>The regions of <strong>Andalusia, the Region of Murcia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands<\/strong> concentrate the most cities with over 200 days of sunshine a year in Spain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Spain is one of the best destinations in Europe if you are looking to escape the cold, with a national average ranging between <strong>2,500 and 3,000 hours of sunshine annually<\/strong>. However, <b>the climate is not the same in all regions<\/b>, and several capitals stand out for <strong>easily exceeding 200 and even 300 clear days each year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At Fotocasa, we tell you which are the <strong>best<\/strong> <b>sunniest cities in Spain to live in, with over 200 days of sunshine a year, <\/b>and how much it costs to buy a home in each of them.<\/p>\n<p>To put together this selection, we analyzed the sunshine hour records of each town and cross-referenced them with the average price per square meter from the Fotocasa price index.<\/p>\n<p>Which Spanish capital has over 300 days of sunshine a year and an 80 m\u00b2 home costs less than \u20ac160,000?<\/p>\n<h2>Which are the best cities in Spain with over 200 days of sunshine a year to live in?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Almer\u00eda, Murcia, Seville, and Alicante<\/strong> are the sunniest cities in Spain, exceeding 300 clear days a year and recording between 2,850 and 3,200 hours of radiation annually according to the Reonic ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The sunniest areas in Spain are mainly concentrated in the<strong> southern peninsula (Andalusia), the Region of Murcia, the Valencian Community, and the archipelagos<\/strong>, all of them exceeding 2,600 hours of radiation annually according to the Reonic insolation report from January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a change of residence to an environment with mild winters, checking the supply and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/evolution-of-house-prices-for-sale-in-spain\/?lang=en\"> price of homes for sale on the Fotocasa portal<\/a> will allow you to find properties and compare prices in each of these areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":108146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13668],"tags":[15513,14821,13686,13687,13688,13550,15099,15054,13547,16808,16809],"class_list":["post-108141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-buying-property-in-spain","tag-foreign","tag-houses-in-spain","tag-housing-doubts-in-spain","tag-lifestyle","tag-live-in-spain","tag-living-in-spain","tag-moving-to-spain","tag-real-estate-market","tag-sunniest-cities-in-spain","tag-warm-weather-spain"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}