Spain · Cabo de Gata, Almería · #5 of Spain's ten by fame
Indiana Jones was here. The car park was not built for the rest of us.
How we rated it: up one for a sourced find, its part in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Photo: Nikater · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mónsul is in the Cabo de Gata Natural Park, 45 minutes' drive from Almería airport, and it was the backdrop for some scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You reach it on a four-kilometre dirt road, and parking is limited. Being inside a natural park, it has no man-made facilities at all. We measured 459 metres of sand.
Warmest sea in August. Fewest wet days in June, July and August. Pick your fight.
One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.
6 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.
Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.
No crowd data.
Some scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Fly to Almería and drive about 45 minutes. The last stretch is a four-kilometre dirt road, and parking is limited.
