Automatic pool covers in Granada

Why in Granada the cover depends on the micro-climate

Few Spanish provinces pack as much climatic variety into so little ground as Granada. In barely an hour's drive you go from the provincial capital and the vega, the fertile plain around it — summers above 38 °C and winters that drop below 0 °C — to the Costa Tropical, which can claim more than 320 days of sunshine a year, mild winters and temperatures that rarely fall below 12 °C. And above all of it, Sierra Nevada, where pools live with frost and snow. That spread is why a “standard” cover does not work here: the right slat in Motril is not the right slat in Guadix or in Cenes de la Vega.

And there are a great many pools: the Catastro has 40,956 outdoor pools on record across the 174 municipalities of the province, 3,278 more than in 2022 — 8.7 % growth in four years. Almuñécar is the second municipality in Granada by number of pools — 2,140, behind only the provincial capital — and ahead of far better-known coastal towns. Motril adds another 1,474 and Salobreña a further 892. These are Catastro figures, not estimates of ours: they count only the pools that are on the register, so they are a floor and not a ceiling.

At Ingerclima we are the manufacturer: we design, build and fit every cover with our own team, with no subcontractors and no middlemen. We serve the whole province from our factory in Torrijos (Toledo) or from our Andalusia branch in San Pedro de Alcántara (Marbella), and we advise area by area so that you choose the model and the type of slat that genuinely performs in the climate your own pool sits in. And one more thing, for the sake of honesty: we have no office and no team in Granada or on the Costa Tropical, and we would rather you knew that before you ring us.

How many months can you swim in Granada?

With an automatic cover drawn over the water at night, the swimming season in Granada runs from May to October. Without one the pool gives you little more than a short summer: the water is slow to warm up in spring and loses it again as soon as the sun eases off.

The cover does two things at once: it stops evaporation, which is where most of the heat goes, and if you choose solar polycarbonate slats it lets the sun through and warms the water underneath at no running cost. And if you want the same temperature right through the season, a heat pump with the cover in place uses 50 to 60 % less energy.