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Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. The city lies in southeastern Iberia, extending primarily in between the eastern fringes of the Sierra de Gádor and the Andarax riverbed along the coastline of the Gulf of Almería, a large inlet of the Mediterranean Sea. The municipality has a population of 201,946.
Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city grew wealthy during the Islamic era, becoming a world city throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. It enjoyed an active port that traded silk, oil, and raisins. This period was brought to an end with the 1147 conquest of the city by a Christian coalition. Control over Almería switched hands over the rest of the middle ages. In the early modern period, with the onset of Barbary piracy, the ethnic cleansing of moriscos in the Kingdom of Granada, and several natural calamities, urban decay accrued. The 19th-century reactivation of mining activity (lead) in the hinterland fostered commercial activity and demographic growth.
Key road routes include the A-7 connecting Almería to the rest of the Spanish Mediterranean coast and the A-92 connecting the city to Granada and inner Andalusia. Almería is served by a medium-sized airport and a port with a growing specialization in passenger and ro-ro transport with the North of Africa (Algeria and Morocco).
Being adjacent to a small desert, Almería has an exceptionally dry climate by European standards.
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| Renting a flat (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Almería · 8,718 leases | €549/month |
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| Renting a house (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Almería | €500/month |
| Buying a home (appraised value)MIVAU, appraised value of private housing · Q2 2026 · figure for Almería | €1,796/m² |
| Average net household incomeINE, Income Distribution Atlas · 2023 · figure for Almería | €35,200/year |
| Petrol 95Ministry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 41 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.754/litre |
| DieselMinistry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 41 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.880/litre |
Sources: State Housing Rent Index System and appraised housing value (Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda); Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE); fuel prices (Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition). Open data, reusable with attribution. The set lunch menu and coffee aren't shown: there are no public statistics on those prices by village or by province.
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