2.14/5
150 reviews
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Marbella

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Marbella offers beautiful natural surroundings, with mountain views, clean beaches, and a pleasant, warm climate year-round. It attracts a diverse international community and has fast, reliable internet, making it ideal for digital nomads who don't mind higher prices. The area includes quiet pockets like Elviria for those needing a peaceful work environment, and recent infrastructure like new bike paths adds to its accessibility, though a car or e-bike is recommended due to the mountainous terrain.

While some reviewers praise Marbella for being quite safe—especially for solo female travelers—others express concerns about crime and aggressive behavior, including unleashed dogs and poorly behaved locals in some spots. Prices range widely, and the city is arguably not suited for those on strict budgets. Still, for those who can afford it and find the right neighborhood, Marbella offers high quality living with strong amenities and beautiful scenery.

AI-generated summary of reviews

Marbella is probably the best place on the European mainland, warm and mild weather, big international community,(German, English, Scandinavian) fast and stable Internet, very relaxed about drugs and prostitution. It is the safest for female travellers, the police detains every man that verbally or fiscally abuses a woman. Prices go from 20€ a night to over 200€, that is why there are real successful digital nomads here, no "Tramps" with laptops. If you avoid the city centre and Puerto Banus but go to Elviria you have a perfect quiet workplace.
Now there is a brand new flat bicycle path all along the beach from Capobino, Elviria, Center 8km to Puerto Banus but a car or a E-Bike is a plus as Andalucía is mountainous.

4 years ago

Beautiful place with some amazing people. Crisp clean beaches, natural wonders all over the countryside nearby, mountain views everywhere, the place oozes high quality and everything is just that. Everything. But this is no shoestring budget place, you could spend a lot of money there.

4 years ago

It looks like a safe place but it’s not. It has more than its share of crimes, and rude, bad tempered, obnoxious, and aggressively behaved people, oh and their always barking unruly vicious aggressive dogs with some of them not leashed.

4 years ago

✅ Warm all year

✅ Fast internet

✅ Very safe

✅ Beautiful natural surroundings

✅ Clean beaches

✅ Lots of fun stuff to do

✅ Perfect humidity now

✅ Good air quality on average

✅ Many Nomads.com members here all year round

✅ Spacious and not crowded

✅ Easy to make friends

✅ Very easy to do business

✅ High quality of education

✅ Great hospitals

✅ Roads are very safe

✅ Great freedom of speech

✅ Democratic

✅ Very safe for women

✅ Family friendly

✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+

✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)

❌ Expensive

❌ Rude or aggressive locals

❌ Crime concerns

❌ Extremely expensive

❌ Gets cold in the winter

❌ Nomads.com members really didn't like going here

❌ People don't speak English well

❌ Many people smoke tobacco

❌ High alcohol consumption

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Feels

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Cloud

pockets
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Air quality

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Sun

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Remote workers

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Green is good. Red is bad. Values shown are the medians of all daily highs in a month based on past few years, not necessarily current numbers. Remote worker count is estimated based on the total amount of trips logged by Nomads.com members.

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Malaga

Spain

⭐️ OverallAll

💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

👍 Liked bad

👮 Safety good

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🌦 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61° AQI 32

🚕2h

$3,287 / mo

28 Mbps

Spain

⭐️ OverallAll

💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

👍 Liked bad

👮 Safety good

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🌦 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61° AQI 32

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$3,287 / mo

🌇 Also went here40 people

Members who have been here

Values shown are estimated visits by traveling remote workers based on the total amount of trips logged by Nomads.com members. Visits to a place are only counted once per year per user, even if they visit more in that year. Visits are also normalized by overall trips added per month on the site, so if site usage goes up or down it does not affect trends. Not all digital nomads are on Nomads.com, and not all Nomads.com members log their trips. So the data is only indicative.

The chart below shows visitors by nationality normalized for population size. This means we take all trips logged on Nomads.com, check which country of origin the user is from, then divide that total visit count by the country of origin's population. If we didn't, it'd just show the big countries like US, Brazil and India always on top. Instead, this shows which nationalities worldwide proportionally visit more or less, which is more useful.

⭐️ Total score	2.14/5 (Rank #858) 150 reviews
❤️ Liked by members	👍2 liked it 👎2 disliked it
👍 Quality of life score	Good
👶 Family score	Okay
🎒 Community score	Good
💵 Cost	😳 Extremely expensive: $5,117 / mo
📡 Internet	🙂 Good: 33Mbps (avg)
😝 Fun	Good
⛅️ Temperature (now)	🥶 A bit cold: 16°C61°F (feels 17°C63°F)
💦 Humidity (now)	😊 Comfy: 62%
💨 Air quality (annual)	🌱 Great: 30 US AQI
👌 Safety	Great
🤮 Food safety*	Great
👮‍♀️ Lack of crime*	Great
🤝 Lack of racism*	Okay
🎓 Education level*	High
⚡️ Power grid	Great
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change	Good
💰 Income level*	High: $2,225 / mo
🙊 English speaking*	Okay
🚶 Walkability	Great
🚦 Traffic safety*	Okay
✈️ Airline scores*	Okay
🧳 Lost luggage*	Okay
🏥 Hospitals	Great
😄 Happiness*	Bad
🍸 Nightlife	Good
📶 Free WiFi in city	Good
🖥 Places to work from	Okay
❄️ A/C or heating	Good
😁 Friendly to foreigners	Good
🗯 Freedom of speech*	Good
👩 Female friendly	Good
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly	Great
🎅 Startup Score	Okay

🌍 Continent	Europe
🚩 Country	Spain
🗓️ Average trip length	16 days
📡 Internet speed (avg)	33 Mbps
⛅️ Weather (now)	🌦 16°C 61°F + 😊 Comfy (62%) = feels 17°C 63°F
💨 Air quality (annual avg)	👍 31 US AQI
🔌 Power	230V 50Hz
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay	Nagüeles
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood	Marbella Pueblo
🚕 Best taxi app*	Uber
🚑 Travel medical insurance	Safetywing
🏧 Suggested ATM take out:	EUR 100 = USD 114
💸 Tipping	No
💳 Cashless	💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere
☕️ Best coffee place	Fresh Food Cafe
🚰 Tap water	👌 Yes, safe to drink
♻️ Return rate	👍11% of visitors return
📸 Visitors per year	650,000 visitors
📸 Tourists now	12,457 tourists
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Population	140,000 people
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 GDP per capita*	$26,695 / year
👫 Gender ratio (population)	👨 46% 👱‍♀️ 54%
👫 Gender ratio (young adults)	👨 53% 👱‍♀️ 47%
👫 Gender ratio (nomads)	👨 83% 👱‍♀️ 17%
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed	Yes
⛪️ Religious government	Non-religious
💻 Online electronics shop	Amazon
🏠 Apartment listings	Casa Mundo
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier	RyanAir
✈️ Best int'l air carrier	Iberia

💵 Cost of living for nomad	$5,117 / month
💵 Cost of living for expat	$2,796 / month
💵 Cost of living for family	$5,323 / month
💵 Cost of living for local	$1,521 / month
🏨 Hotel (median price)	$5,147 / month
🏡 Airbnb (median price)	$4,136 / month
🏠 1br studio rent in center	$1,322 / month
🏠 Median home price	$1,592,138
🏨 Hotel (median price)	$241 / night
🏠 Airbnb (median price)	$136 / night
🏢 Coworking hot desk	$382 / month
🍛 Dinner	$13
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L)	$2
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L)	$3
☕️ Coffee in cafe	$2
👩‍🏫 International school	$14,026 / year
📱 Mobile data (~10GB)	$28 / month
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi)	$7 / trip