Granada is a working provincial capital, and most of its housing market is domestic. INE's Censo Anual, table 68535, puts the municipality at 235,294 people at 1 January 2025, while INE's separate municipal register revision, at the same reference date, puts it at 233,975. We name the operation because the two are 1,319 apart and neither source reconciles them. The province of Granada, a different geography carrying the same name, held 942,618 people on that register.
Idealista's July 2026 sale report prices fifteen of the eighteen Granada districts it lists. Three appear in the area selector with no figure at all, and Joaquina Eguaras carries a price with no annual comparison beside it. Realejo sits at the top of that table and Norte at the bottom, a spread wide enough that a single city average tells a buyer very little. These are asking prices taken from listings rather than deeds.
The metro is one line, in service since 21 September 2017, and a southern extension is under construction with no completion date published. The climate normals we publish come from AEMET station 5530E, Granada Aeropuerto, whose printed municipality is Chauchina rather than Granada. Over the 1981 to 2010 period it records 48.5 frost days a year at 560 metres.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
A metro line that is actually running
The Andalusian regional government's public works agency records one line in service since 21 September 2017, running from Albolote and Maracena in the north, through Granada capital, and ending at Armilla in the south.
District detail instead of one city figure
Idealista's July 2026 report prices fifteen separate Granada districts, so a buyer can set Realejo, Centro, Albaicín, La Chana and Norte against each other rather than working from a single municipal average.
An annual sunshine figure AEMET actually publishes
Granada Aeropuerto prints a number where the other stations we checked print a dash: 2,917 hours of sunshine a year across the 1981 to 2010 normals. We publish what AEMET published and never build an annual total out of months.
Two published measures of the international population
INE publishes 34,904 residents born outside Spain and 24,551 holding foreign nationality at 1 January 2025. Morocco, Colombia and Venezuela are the three largest groups on both of those measures.
An airport carrying over a million passengers
Aena counted 1,152,872 passengers at FGL Granada-Jaen across the 2025 calendar year. The name covers two provinces, and the climate station at the same site prints its municipality as Chauchina.
One metro line is not a network
The regional public works agency names a single line and a southern extension to Churriana de la Vega and Las Gabias with no completion date. We have not established a Cercanias commuter network for the city either.
The climate station is not in Granada
AEMET prints the municipality of station 5530E as Chauchina, not Granada, and the station sits at 560 metres. We publish no distances, so we cannot tell you how much that displacement changes.
Three listed districts carry no price
Idealista lists eighteen Granada areas and prices fifteen of them. Joaquina Eguaras has a price but no annual change, so its year-on-year movement is absent from the table rather than flat.
No single reference hospital to name
The Servicio Andaluz de Salud publishes separate entries for Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves and Hospital Universitario San Cecilio. Neither page we read claims a territorial reference role, so we leave the field empty rather than guess.
Winters are colder than the region suggests
The 1981 to 2010 normals for Granada Aeropuerto record 48.5 frost days a year and a January average daily minimum of 0.0 degrees Celsius. Reading Andalusia as frost-free is reading it wrong.
Editor's note
What we publish here is narrower than what we looked at. Prices are asking prices from Idealista's July 2026 report, taken only from the municipality page's district table, because the individual district pages served June figures that contradict it. We publish districts and not barrios: all four Granada district pages we fetched served June, so whether the barrio tier exists here at all is unestablished rather than absent. Sunshine is the figure AEMET prints for the year, 2,917 hours, even though the twelve monthly normals sum to 2,915. Every population and price figure is labelled as the city or the province, because the two share a name and INE returns identical labels for both. We left out any reference hospital, any high-speed rail claim, and all cost-of-living, school and crime data, because no source in our research supplies them. If a working inland capital appeals but Granada does not fit, our guides to Sevilla, Córdoba and Zaragoza cover the same kind of city. And Ronda, the town in Málaga province, is a separate guide entirely: the Granada district named Ronda - Arabial is not it.
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Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearest of the fifteen Granada districts idealista prices, at rather more than a quarter above the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 at well over half again the city's own pace.
Second dearest of the fifteen priced districts, roughly an eighth above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at around five sixths of the city's own pace.
Third of the fifteen priced districts, roughly an eighth above the municipal figure per square metre. This is a district of Granada city and has nothing to do with the town of Ronda in Málaga province.
Fourth of the fifteen priced districts, about an eighth above the municipal figure per square metre, and one of the slower risers over the year to July 2026 at under two thirds of the city's own pace.
Fifth of the fifteen priced districts and a little above the municipal figure per square metre. Its own district page served a June report with a higher figure, and the July municipality table is the one used here.
Sixth of the fifteen priced districts, a shade above the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 somewhat ahead of the pace of the city as a whole.
Seventh of the fifteen priced districts, barely above the municipal figure per square metre, and among the faster risers over the year to July 2026 at over half again the city's own pace.
Eighth of the fifteen priced districts, a shade under the municipal figure per square metre, and the district whose asking level moved least of the fifteen over the year to July 2026.
Ninth of the fifteen priced districts, essentially level with the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at almost exactly the pace of the city as a whole.
Tenth of the fifteen priced districts, at around eleven twelfths of the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 at more than twice the city's own pace.
Eleventh of the fifteen priced districts, at about nine tenths of the municipal figure per square metre. Its own district page served a June report with a lower figure; the July municipality table is used here.
Twelfth of the fifteen priced districts, at roughly five sixths of the municipal figure per square metre, and the slowest riser of the fifteen over the year to July 2026 apart from Los Pajaritos.
Thirteenth of the fifteen priced districts, at about four fifths of the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 at around three quarters of the city's own pace.
Fourteenth of the fifteen priced districts, at about four fifths of the municipal figure per square metre. Idealista publishes a price for it in July 2026 but no comparison with a year earlier, so none is shown.
Cheapest of the fifteen districts idealista prices in Granada, at rather over half the municipal figure per square metre, and much the fastest riser of them over the year to July 2026 at close to three times the city's pace.
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