El Real de Gandia is a municipality in the comarca of Safor, within the Valencian Community of Spain. It is located in the eastern part of the country, in the province of Valencia.
The town lies in the Safor region, a coastal comarca whose administrative and cultural centre is the nearby city of Gandia. El Real de Gandia forms part of the broader Valencian Community, an autonomous region on Spain's eastern Mediterranean coast.
As a municipality, El Real de Gandia has its own local administration and is one of the smaller settlements within the Safor comarca, situated close to Gandia and the surrounding towns of the region.