La Caleta
560.000 - 1.310.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure.
Coastal
20.666
Population
28.4° / 21.7°
Summer peak / Winter day
€5,309
Avg €/m²
Updated 1 Sept 2026How we source our data →
Living in Costa Adeje
The seafront is the town here. The town hall describes a single promenade that never leaves the sea, beginning at the fishing village of La Caleta and reaching Plaza de Troya, passing Playa del Duque, Fanabe, Torviscas and La Pinta, and it counts twenty-one bathing areas along the Costa Adeje coast. El Duque (Sur) and Torviscas both hold a Blue Flag for the 2026 season. Sand here runs dark, golden or white depending which one you stand on.
What is offshore matters as much. The water in front of this coast sits inside a marine conservation site declared in 2011, where bottlenose dolphins and short-finned pilot whales are resident all year and the environment ministry records up to twenty-two cetacean species. Behind the town the Barranco del Infierno climbs into a nature reserve of 1,843 hectares lying entirely inside the municipality of Adeje, where the island council puts about four in ten plant species among the Canary endemics.
Even so, Costa Adeje is not one address, and the price says so. Idealista prices it above the municipality it sits in and prices eight barrios beneath it, five of them above the district figure. The population on this page comes from a different body, a different year and wider ground. Choosing Costa Adeje without choosing which part of it is choosing very little.
The verdict
Honestly considered, both sides.
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
The case for
A seafront you can walk end to end
The town hall describes one continuous promenade beginning at the fishing village of La Caleta and reaching Plaza de Troya, passing Playa del Duque, Duque Norte, Fanabe, Torviscas and La Pinta, and counts twenty-one bathing areas along the Costa Adeje coast.
Two Blue Flags on the 2026 awarded list
The awarded-beaches list for the 2026 season names El Duque (Sur) and Torviscas in the municipality of Adeje. The town hall lists a lifeguard, periodic water analysis, ramp access, walkways over the sand and an amphibious chair on both.
Resident whales and dolphins in the water offshore
The sea fronting this coast lies inside a marine conservation site of nearly seventy thousand hectares, declared in 2011, where bottlenose dolphins and short-finned pilot whales are resident year round and the environment ministry records up to twenty-two cetacean species.
A nature reserve above the town
The Barranco del Infierno is a special nature reserve of 1,843 hectares lying entirely inside the municipality of Adeje, where the island council puts about four in ten plant species among the Canary endemics.
An old quarter with a fortified house
Above the resort, Adeje's oldest quarter holds the Casa Fuerte, a protected Monumento of roughly nine thousand square metres with the remains of a sugar mill behind the house, facing the church of Santa Ursula, itself a protected Monumento.
The case against
Five of the eight barrios ask above the headline
The district figure sits below five of the eight barrios Idealista prices beneath it, so a buyer reading it as the price of the seafront is reading it low. La Caleta at the top asks well above it.
The population and the price cover different ground
The published population is a wider area recorded three years earlier by a different body, and only six of its twelve nucleos carry the Costa Adeje name. Nothing can be worked out across the two figures.
Playa de las Americas is filed two different ways
Idealista prices it as a barrio of Costa Adeje. The statistics body has no unit of that name inside Adeje, only two under the municipality of Arona. Nothing settles which, and this page does not.
The trail above the town is capped and booked
The Canary tourism board says access to the Barranco del Infierno is limited to three hundred people a day and requires advance booking. It is a walk you plan rather than one you decide on that morning.
No tram here, and the railway is not built
Metropolitano de Tenerife runs two lines, both inside Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristobal de La Laguna, and Costa Adeje is not on that network. The separate Tenerife railway remains pre-construction.
Editor's note
Where you might be better off elsewhere
Costa Adeje suits a buyer who wants the sea at the end of the street and is content to buy into a resort rather than a town. The promenade, the two Blue Flags, the whales offshore and the reserve behind are all real. What you are not buying is a place with one settled boundary: the price comes from Idealista and the population from ISTAC, three years earlier and over wider ground, and five of the eight barrios ask more than the district figure does.
On health it is better placed than the boundary problem suggests. The Servicio Canario de la Salud names Hospital del Sur de Tenerife, in Arona, as the reference hospital for a southern area whose published catchment names Adeje directly, which is not something every page in this batch can say.
If you want a town rather than a seafront, Puerto de la Cruz on the north coast is a municipality in its own right. If you want a city, Santa Cruz de Tenerife has the tram, shared with San Cristobal de La Laguna, and a weather station inside its own boundary. La Gomera is the quiet opposite of all of it.
Costa Adeje on the map
Lifestyle data
Climate
28.4° / 21.7°
Summer peak / Winter day
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Low 18.4°CHigh 24.7°C
- Annual mean
- 21.4°C
- Rain days
- 15.2/yr
Granadilla de Abona municipality, station: Tenerife Sur Aeropuerto, 17 km south east
Average 1981-2010 · AEMET
Property market
€5,309
/m²
+3.4% year on year
Updated 1 Sept 2026
Costa Adeje neighborhoods
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Playa de las Américas
450.000 - 1.050.000 €Indicative guide pricesAsking prices are above the district figure. Although filed here, a settlement of that name is placed under the municipality of Arona by a statistical office.
Resort
San Eugenio Bajo
450.000 - 1.040.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is rising faster than the municipality over the year.
Coastal
Playa de Fañabé
440.000 - 1.040.000 €Indicative guide pricesAsking prices are above the district figure. Annual asking prices fell, while they rose in the district as a whole.
Beach
Torviscas Bajo
410.000 - 950.000 €Indicative guide pricesAsking prices are close to the district figure. Annual price movement was slower than in the district as a whole.
Coastal
Playa de Fañabé Alto
360.000 - 840.000 €Indicative guide pricesAsking prices are below the district figure. Annual price movement was faster compared with the district.
Residential
San Eugenio Alto
350.000 - 820.000 €Indicative guide pricesIts asking prices sit below the wider Costa Adeje figure, and they rose more slowly over the year.
Residential
Torviscas Centro y Alto
310.000 - 730.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced below the municipal asking figure.
Residential
Costa Adeje FAQ
Honest answers to the questions buyers actually ask.
Is Costa Adeje a municipality?+
No. It sits inside the municipality of Adeje, on Tenerife, in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. INE has no statistical unit called Costa Adeje, so there is no official municipal row to look up. Idealista treats it as a district of Adeje and prices it. ISTAC treats it as a population entity made up of twelve nucleos. Three sources, three answers, and each is right on its own terms.
How many people live in Costa Adeje?+
ISTAC records 20,666 residents in the Costa Adeje population entity at 1 January 2022. That entity also takes in Playa Paraíso, Callao Salvaje, La Caleta, Sueño Azul and El Puertito, so it reaches beyond what anyone would point at as the resort. The figure comes from ISTAC's padron exploitation, which is neither the municipal register nor the Censo Anual, so it cannot be set against the 2025 figures used elsewhere on this site. On ISTAC's own numbers for that same date, the entity holds a little over two fifths of Adeje's residents.
Is there a foreign-resident count for Costa Adeje?+
No source we have checked publishes one, at any date. Everything we can say on the subject is Adeje the municipality, from the annual census at 1 January 2025. On the nationality basis roughly half of Adeje's residents hold a foreign nationality, so Spanish nationals are a narrow majority. On the country-of-birth basis Adeje is majority foreign-born, which the nationality measure does not show. Both totals are derived by subtraction, because INE publishes only the total and the Spanish count, never a foreign one.
Which nationalities are largest in Adeje?+
INE's country breakdown for Adeje is on the nationality basis only. No country-of-birth breakdown was published for us to use, so this list is about nationality, not birthplaces, and it is the municipality at 1 January 2025. Italy is by far the largest single country of nationality, ahead of the United Kingdom, then Russia, Romania, Poland, Germany and China. One large entry, Otros paises de la Union Europea, is a grouping rather than a country and is left out of that order.
What do homes cost in Costa Adeje?+
The July 2026 report prices Costa Adeje as a district of Adeje, above the municipality's own figure and well above the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province average. These are asking prices: Idealista's own methodology says the index reflects the offer price, not the final transaction price or the rent actually paid. Eight barrios are priced one tier within it, from La Caleta at the top down to Torviscas Centro y Alto, and five of the eight ask more per square metre than the district figure does. Adeje itself lists eleven areas and prices only five of them.
Which parts of Adeje have no published price?+
Idealista's selector for Adeje lists eleven areas, and its July 2026 table prices five of them: Callao Salvaje, Casco Urbano, Costa Adeje, Playa Paraíso and Tijoco. The six it lists without a price are Armeñime, Fañabé - Ifonche y Benítez, La Quinta - Taucho, Las Moraditas, Los Menores and Marazul, using Idealista's own groupings. An area absent from the table has no published asking price, which is not the same thing as being cheap, and we will not put a figure on it.
Is Playa de las Américas part of Costa Adeje?+
It depends entirely on which source you ask, and we are not going to assert a boundary. Idealista files it as a barrio of Costa Adeje and prices it there. ISTAC does not: a search of its territorial classification returns two units of that name, both under the municipality of Arona, with Arona written into the name. What a buyer needs from this is narrower and firmer. The price and the population on this page do not cover the same ground.
What is the climate like, and which station is it?+
We have no normals for a weather station inside Adeje. The station AEMET names Tenerife Sur Aeropuerto is printed as being in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, and its 1981 to 2010 normals give an annual average temperature of about 21 degrees, 114 cloudless days and 132 mm of rain a year. Read that as south Tenerife, not as Costa Adeje's own climate. AEMET's annual sunshine-hours entry for that station is a dash, so we cannot give one.
What are the costs of buying property in Costa Adeje?+
When buying property in Costa Adeje, budget for property transfer tax (ITP) of 6.5%, plus roughly 3-4% in notary, land registry and legal fees. Agency commission is usually paid by the seller. On the mainland and the Balearics, new builds pay VAT (IVA) of 10% plus AJD stamp duty instead of ITP. Transfer tax is set by Canarias rather than nationally, and reduced rates can apply for main homes and younger buyers. The Canary Islands sit outside the EU VAT area, so a new build in Costa Adeje pays IGIC instead of IVA: 7% general, 5% on a main home, 3% for qualifying buyers and 0% on VPO under the regimen general, plus AJD stamp duty of 0.75% (0.4% on the mortgage deed). IGIC and transfer tax cannot both apply, so a resale pays transfer tax and no IGIC. That is a difference on this line only, not a claim that buying here costs less overall. Source: Agencia Tributaria Canaria, Ley 19/2019, with the 2026 thresholds set by Ley 9/2025.
What are the ongoing costs of owning property in Costa Adeje?+
Annual property ownership costs in Costa Adeje include IBI (property tax) of 0.4-1.1% of cadastral value, community fees (for apartments), rubbish collection tax (basura), utility bills, and property insurance. Budget approximately 2-4% of property value per year for all running costs. IBI is set by the town hall of Adeje within a national band, so it is municipal rather than regional.
What taxes do I pay when selling property in Costa Adeje?+
When selling property in Costa Adeje, you pay capital gains tax (plusvalía) on the profit at rates of 19-26% depending on the gain amount. Non-residents have 3% of the sale price withheld at completion. You may also pay municipal capital gains tax. Main residence exemptions may apply for residents over 65. Capital gains tax is national, so it is the same in Canarias as anywhere in Spain. Plusvalia municipal is set by the town hall of Adeje and has had two calculation methods since the 2021 reform, so ask your lawyer which one is cheaper for you.
Can I still get a Golden Visa by buying property in Spain?+
No. Spain withdrew the Golden Visa property investment route in April 2025, so buying in Costa Adeje no longer leads to residency. Non-EU buyers who want to live in Spain apply for a separate permit instead, most often the non-lucrative visa (proof of income and private health insurance) or the digital nomad visa (remote work for non-Spanish clients). Ask an immigration lawyer which route fits your situation before you buy.
Transfer tax rates as of August 2026. Rates are set per autonomous community and do change. Confirm the current figures with a Spanish lawyer or tax adviser before you budget.
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