Almería

Almería has a hot, arid climate. Almería's winters are very mild, around 18 °C (65 °F). Summers are long and hot and often reach and exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in the shade during July and August.

🌍 Almería airport (LEI) (to the east of the city). Serves domestic flights, and elsewhere in Europe. Iberia offers regular connections with Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Bilbao and Melilla. Easyjet keeps a connection with London Gatwick. Various other European low cost airlines, including EasyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair offer a mix or year round and seasonal flights from a host of cities throughout Europe. The international connections increases in summer season. Car hire is available at the airport, and it is served by municipal bus route #30, which runs to the city centre and to the bus/train station. (updated Mar 2022)

As an alternative you can flight to Málaga Airport (AGP) instead. It's the fourth busiest in Spain and thus has flights to most of major European airports and some non-European ones (Montreal, New York, Casablanca, Tel Aviv) and it's 214 km away of Almería city.

From Málaga Airport to Almería city alternatives:

• By bus through Málaga: a bus service is available connecting Málaga Airport with Málaga city. It stops at the main bus station and train station of Málaga. There you can get ALSA buses to Almería city, taking between 3 and 5 hours depending on the intermediate stops. You can buy your tickets at the ALSA website. Bus stops at Estación Intermodal, in city downtown.
• Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a daily direct bus connection operated by ALSA between the airport and Almería city, but it is not available as of March 2022.

🌍 Almería Intermodal Station (southeast of the city centre). At southeast of the city centre (10- to 15-min walk), by El Cable. Train service to Almería is quite limited for a city of the size because it is isolated at the end of a long branch line. RENFE operate a Talgo service to Madrid Charmatin, and a regional service from Sevilla via Granada and Cordoba. 

The route from Madrid is quite slow (almost 7 hours), but incredibly scenic, as the train winds along a serpentine route though the desert, revealing a landscape like nothing else in Europe, with barren mountains, and tiny, remote arroyos (wadis) where a few cactus and palms survive on underground moisture. The train also offers a spectacular view as it approaches Guadix, a town in the desert backed by a massive cliff, into which numerous cave buildings have been carved. After a few hours the train breaks through the mountains and beyond the desert into the flat tableland of the Meseta, from where it sprints towards Madrid in a dead straight line. The Almería-Granada train route has been praised as recommended slow travel by the Guardian[1].

Almería has a good land communication with all the Mediterranean coast by the  A-7  highway, which join up to France frontier in La Jonquera and, on the other side, ends at Algeciras.

To the interior, Almería is connected by the  A-92 , another highway that connects with the rest of Andalusia and Madrid. This roads are toll-free.

The bus station is combined with the train station, and is immediately south-east of the city centre, near to the Cable. Buses arrive from Jaén, Málaga, Granada and a variety of other cities all day. Less frequent long distance buses run from points along the coast to Barcelona, and up to Madrid. Additional options are available if routing through Granada, which is quick and simple. The bus station only serves long-distance buses. Some municipal buses stop outside, but don't start or terminate from here.

🌍 Port of Almeria (south of city downtown). Ferries connect Almería to Melilla, a Spanish city on the North Africa coast, to Nador in Morocco (across the bay from Melilla), as well as Ghazaouet and Oran in Algeria. All ferries carry cars as well as passengers. A fast-ferry also operates to Melilla, and offers a significant time saving, with a crossing time of 3½ hr. 

• Paseo Maritimo zone. The pedestrian street by the sea offers a great number of bars de tapa, where breakfast, coffee, juices beers and tapas can be enjoyed with the view of the sea and the beautiful sunsets. 
• Calle Mayor (center). Calle Mayor is a tapas-bar between the Rambla and the paseo de Almería near the centre. It has a variety of tapas, often different than the most common choices found in most of the tapas bars in the city, some of the choices being vegetarian. The price for a caña of beer (a smaller glass than the tubos) and a tapa is only €1 in the evenings. 
• 46 (center (quatro calles)). For a different selection of tapas, 46 is an Italian tapas bar, with a variety of lasagna and pastas as an additional choice to the common tapas. Price of a tubo of beer and tapa is €2. 

• 🌍 Elba Almería Hotel, Avenida del Mediterráneo. (updated Mar 2022)
• 🌍 Hotel Sercotel Gran Fama, Av. del Mediterráneo, 311. (updated Mar 2022)
• 🌍 Avenida Hotel in Almería, Avenida del Mediterráneo, 281. (updated Mar 2022)
• 🌍 Hotel La Perla, Plaza del Carmen 7, ☏ +34950238877, recepcion@hotellaperla.es. (updated Oct 2022)
• 🌍 Hotel Torreluz Centro, Plaza Flores 8, ☏ +34 950281429, recepcion@torreluz.es. (updated Oct 2022)
• 🌍 Hotel Nuevo Torreluz, Plaza Flores10, ☏ +34 950234399, torreluz@torreluz.com. (updated Oct 2022)
• 🌍 Hotel AC Almería, Plaza Flores, nº 5, ☏ +34950234999, torreluz@torreluz.com. (updated Oct 2022)

• Romania, Carretera Huércal de Almería 46, ☏ +34 950 625 963, +34 950 624 769, +34 950 172 725, fax: +34 950 145 217, almeria@mae.ro. (updated Dec 2021)