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Moving to Spain made easy! Unique tools, expert guidance, and handpicked service providers. Are you Moving to Spain? We are here to make it easier for you.

Make your move hassle-free with our step-by-step planner and a network of service providers we continually assess for quality. You will also find unique tools, expert guidance, and up-to-date advice at https://movingtospain.com. Moving to Spain was founded by Alison and Alastair Johnson, who have lived in Spain since 2015. They had already helped hundreds of people move to Spain on their sister si

te, Where Can I Live. Moving to Spain is based on their own experiences, the experiences of other expats, and input from government and legal experts. We can't wait to help you start a new wonderful life in sunny Spain.

24/08/2026

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23/08/2026

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Mercadona has sooooo many delicious things. We love the creamy cheese dips and their fresh tortillas. Another great thing is their famous makeup and hair product dupes!

These can be a little more expensive but you will get the highest quality here.

More typical style grocery store. Solid choice.

There are so many wonderful mercats in Spain. Even the small ones have local, fresh, amazing products. They are basically farmer markets that are open every day except Sundays usually.

Some Carrefour expresses are open on Sundays and are a great place to get any food items you may have forgotten for your Sunday comida.

Expensive but worth it for special high end treats!

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19/08/2026

On the hottest day of the year in Spain we thought this would be an appropriate post. These are the average range temperatures all over Spain for the month of August. 🌡️

Not everywhere in Spain is hot in August.

While Seville sits around 36°C and Madrid around 33°C, the northern coast tells a completely different story. Vigo, Santander and Oviedo stay around 23 to 24°C in the day, green and mild, with cooler nights and the odd spell of rain.
There’s also a difference worth understanding before you settle on a region: dry heat and humid heat are not the same thing.

Inland cities like Madrid and Seville are dry. The air holds little moisture, so the heat, while genuinely intense, is easier to shake off in the shade, and the nights cool down.

The coast (Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Alicante, Cadiz) is humid. The numbers look lower, high twenties to low thirties, but the moisture makes it feel warmer than the thermometer says, and the nights stay warm too. A humid 30°C by the sea can feel more draining than a dry 33°C inland.
None of this makes one region better than another. It makes them different. Some people want the dry, open heat of the interior. Some want the sea and the coastal breeze. Some want the mild, green summers of the north.

Working out which kind of summer actually suits your day-to-day life is one of the first things worth getting right when you’re deciding where in Spain to live. It matters more than most people expect.
Save this for your region shortlist.

18/08/2026

Here’s our top 10 favorite beaches in mainland Spain that you can roadtrip to in the summer. We love roadtrips because in Spain there is so much to see and plane trips are so much more expensive in the summer.

One of the most beautiful places in Spain is Costa Brava. 😍

We love how different beaches in Spain can be.

From long Sandy beaches.

To wildly beautiful rocks.

Beaches that make you feel like you’ve escaped to Hawaii.

Fun, buzzing city beaches that may not have the beautiful water but are a vibe.

Epic city beaches

Beaches that you can walk on forever and still have the water be at your hip.

Another incredible city beach. In this area surfing is very popular.

Malaga beaches are famous for chiringuitos. Little restaurants that have incredible seafood.

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17/08/2026

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15/08/2026

It was 42°C the day we took this photo. Somehow, it felt easier than 35°C back home on the coast.

We didn’t. We were more comfortable than we usually are at 35°C (95°F) in our own town on the Med coast.

These are exactly the kinds of things we work through in our Find Your Corner of Spain consultation. It is a 60 minute call.

Last July, Al and I spent a week in Extremadura, in western Spain. In Plasencia the thermometer hit 42°C (108°F), and we fully expected to melt.

If you are weighing up where in Spain to live, humidity belongs on the list right next to temperature and cost. It shapes daily life more than most people realise until they are here.

The reason was the humidity, or the lack of it. Extremadura in summer is bone dry. Sweat evaporates the moment it appears, so your body cools the way it is meant to. Not a bead on us all day. You still plan around the afternoon, shade, a slower few hours, evenings out once it cools, but dry warmth is a genuinely different and more manageable kind of hot.

It is why we always tell people not to judge a place by its headline temperature. The hot inland cities, Madrid, Seville, and regions like Extremadura, are far more liveable in summer than the numbers suggest. And a lower number on the coast does not always mean an easier summer.

The coast is another experience entirely. The moisture in the air stops that evaporation, so 35°C by the sea can feel heavier and more draining than 42°C inland.

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12/08/2026

InterNations, one of the largest global communities for people living abroad, has just released its 2026 Expat Insider survey, and Spain has topped the Quality of Life Index for the fifth year running. It’s one of the most widely cited benchmarks of expat life anywhere, covering 31 countries and asking expats to rate everyday, practical parts of life: travel and transit, safety, leisure, healthcare, and environment and climate.

It’s that combination, not any one category, that seems to be why 20% of expats in Spain say they moved here specifically for quality of life, more than double the 9% global average. And 41% say they want to stay forever, compared with 27% globally.

What’s notable is that Spain doesn’t win on one single standout factor. It wins because it scores well across almost all of them at once.

Healthcare ranks 4th, with expats rating affordability, availability, and quality all well above the global average. Climate ranks 2nd, with 89% satisfied compared with 58% globally. Leisure ranks 2nd too, driven by culture, nightlife, and food: 87% praise Spain’s dining scene, against 75% globally. Even everyday transport holds up, with most expats saying it’s easy and safe to get around on foot, bike, or public transport.

None of this replaces doing the practical groundwork before a move: visas, tax, healthcare access, housing. But when a survey this widely followed, run by a community with no stake in whether you move to Spain or not, keeps landing on the same result five years running, it’s a useful, independent data point if you’ve been wondering whether the quality-of-life reputation is actually backed up by anything.

The food speaks for itself.

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10/08/2026

It’s 10:20 pm on a Tuesday night in Begur and nobody is home.

This is one of the things that surprises our clients most in their first summer. Kids still out with their grandparents. Couples in their seventies having dinner at the hour Americans are heading to bed. Whole towns come outside when the heat drops, and the evening is the social part of the day.

It takes some adjusting. Dinner at 9:30 feels strange for about a month. Then you stop noticing, and eventually you can’t imagine going back.

If the pace of life is part of why you’re considering Spain, this is what it actually looks like.

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