{"id":501590,"date":"2025-10-15T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501590\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:42:15","slug":"why-is-malaga-among-the-six-provinces-in-spain-with-the-highest-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501590\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Malaga among the six provinces in Spain with the highest price rises?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nWednesday, 15 October 2025, 15:09<\/p>\n

The rise in prices has picked up again in the province of Malaga. According to data published by Spain’s national institute of statistics (INE), inflation stood at 3.4% in Malaga in September. Compared to this, in August it stood at 3.1%. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at the national level, the CPI stood at 3%, up from 2.7% in August. CPI measures prices, while inflation measures how fast those prices are rising.<\/p>\n

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Malaga is among the six provinces in Spain where prices have risen the most. Castell\u00f3n and Ceuta head the ranking, with increases of 3.9%. In Madrid, the rise is 3.5%. Malaga is tied with Huesca and Salamanca.<\/p>\n

At the lowest end of the ranking are Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, where prices rose by 2.2% in September, the same as in August. In Murcia, Teruel, Ciudad Real and Burgos, the cost of living rose by around 2.5%.<\/p>\n

Malaga is therefore also the Andalusian province where prices have risen the most, followed by Granada (3.2%) and Cadiz (3.1%). Seville and Almeria are a little lower, at around 3%.<\/p>\n

The behaviour of prices in Malaga differs from average national rates mostly in clothing and footwear. Despite persistent summer temperatures, the start of the autumn-winter season has led to price rises of around 8.2% in Malaga, compared with 0.8% in Spain as a whole. Clothing prices, in particular, have risen by 10% – a striking difference from the 0.9% national average. Footwear and repairs have remained more contained, with a rise of 2% in Malaga, also higher than the national average (0.5%).<\/p>\n

However, grocery prices continue to show some moderation in Malaga: the 2.3% rise in September is identical to that of August and slightly below that recorded in Spain (2.4%).<\/p>\n

Housing, water, electricity and other fuels are also more expensive in Malaga than in Spain as a whole: 7.4% in the province and 7.1% in the country. If we break down all these components, we find that water rises more in Spain (5.3%) than in Malaga (1.9%), while electricity, gas and other fuels are more expensive in Malaga (14.8%) than in Spain (12.3%).<\/p>\n

With regard to tourism goods and services, it can be seen that, for example, accommodation (hotels and similar) is increasing at a rate of 11.2% in Malaga, almost double the Spanish average (6%). On the other hand, restaurant services have risen by 4.1% both in Malaga and in Spain as a whole.<\/p>\n

How have education prices evolved at the start of the academic year? Preschool and primary education costs have fallen by 6% in Malaga, compared to a rise of 3.9% at national level; secondary education has risen by 2.4% in the province, compared to the national average of 3.8%; while higher education has risen by 2.1% in Malaga and 2.3% in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 15:09 The rise in prices has picked up again in the province of Malaga.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[78284,2000,299,73918,7707,14836,96882,123048,28222,104,5598,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-501590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-among","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-highest","12":"tag-malaga","13":"tag-price","14":"tag-provinces","15":"tag-rises","16":"tag-six","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-the","19":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115378477133698372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}