Coruña, A · Galicia
Cedeira
A graceful port in its own attractive little ría, its old quarter uncommercialized, lined with elegant glass-balconied houses.
What Cedeira is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
12km southwest of San Andrés, in its own ría.
Worth the trip
- Restaurants and tapas bars strung along the northern quayside
- The huge Magdalena beach, more a cluster of sand dunes than a conventional beach
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 11.8°C 4.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.8°C 7.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 127 days 86% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 5.9 h/day 19% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,001 10% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.8%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 38.3 per 1,000 13% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 49 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 58 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 73 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 79% about the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 92% 9% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 6,573
- Born in Spain
- 88.7% 0.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4.2% 0.3% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.83 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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