Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Fuengirola
Málaga · Andalucía · 10 km²
What rustic land in Fuengirola allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.
Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2011. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 54 wells and boreholes in Fuengirola. Half of the 47 with a depth found water at 8–57 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 50% porous aquifer, high productivity; 35% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 9.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 12% in the 500-year one.
- 7.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 639 mm a year (1971–2000), about 539 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.