Region · Spain
Living in Galicia
Galicia is Atlantic Spain: winters average 8.9°C and summers stay comparatively mild — 26°C highs against a hotter national norm — across roughly 121 rainy days a year. The trade is grey, wet spells rather than reliable sun, but summer water stress runs low (WEI+ 6 vs a national 56). As Spain's south dries out, that green-and-watered profile is a genuine climate-refuge trait.
Overview
On the wallet: homes run about €1,650/m² (18% below the national average (€2,024/m²)); median net income is about €13,641 per person (4% below the national average (€14,279)).
Public healthcare here means a mean surgical wait around 73 days (29% below the national average (103 days)), with 5.7% of the surgical list waiting over six months — a real, published number, not a brochure claim.
We publish 28 of Galicia's 313 municipalities in depth so far — the ones with a full guide portrait to sit alongside the numbers, weighted toward the milder-summer north. Every figure below is shown against the national reference, gaps included.
The numbers for Galicia
Region-level data, each figure against the national reference. Where a figure is a comunidad-autónoma reading rather than a town measurement, we say so under the card.
Climate
- Winter average
- 8.9°C 1.1 °C above the national average (7.8°C)
- Summer high
- 26.0°C 4.2 °C below the national average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 121 days 76% above the national average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.7 h/day 21% below the national average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- 6 51 points below the national average (56)
Aggregated from the region's municipalities (AEMET/derived); summer water stress is a river-basin (WEI+) reading.
Schools
- PISA maths
- 486 7 points above the national average (479)
- PISA reading
- 485 7 points above the national average (478)
- PISA science
- 506 17 points above the national average (489)
PISA 2022, reported per comunidad autónoma (INEE). National reference = the mean across the 17 comunidades.
Healthcare
- Surgical wait
- 73 days 29% below the national average (103 days)
- Waiting over 6 months
- 5.7% 11 pts below the national average (16.6%)
- Specialist consult wait
- 63 days 34% below the national average (95 days)
Public waiting lists, SISLE-SNS Dic 2025 (2025-12-31), per comunidad autónoma.
Cost & economy
- Median net income / person
- €13,641 4% below the national average (€14,279)
- Median home price
- €1,650/m² 18% below the national average (€2,024/m²)
Median across the region's municipalities (INE net income; Catastro-derived sale price).
Who lives here
- Born in Spain
- 90.4% 1.7 pts above the national average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.4% 0.4 pts below the national average (3.8%)
Share of residents by place of birth, averaged across the region's municipalities (INE).
Tax posture
- Wealth tax
- No wealth-tax bill on ordinary assets — Galicia applies a large Patrimonio relief; only very large fortunes reach the state solidarity tax (ISGF).
- Inheritance & gifts
- ~99% relief on inheritance and gifts between direct family (spouse, children, parents).
Posture for direct-family transfers and ordinary wealth; very large estates can still meet the state ISGF. Source: REAF Panorama de la Fiscalidad Autonómica y Foral 2025 (Consejo General de Economistas). General posture, not personal tax advice — thresholds and reliefs change and depend on your circumstances.
Town profiles in Galicia
We profile 28 of Galicia's 313 municipalities in depth — numbers plus an honest portrait. More as we cover them.
- Baiona Pontevedra
- Betanzos Coruña, A
- Camariñas Coruña, A
- Cambados Pontevedra
- Cangas Pontevedra
- Castro Caldelas Ourense
- Cedeira Coruña, A
- Celanova Ourense
- Coruña, A Coruña, A
- Guarda, A Pontevedra
- Illa de Arousa, A Pontevedra
- Laxe Coruña, A
- Lugo Lugo
- Malpica de Bergantiños Coruña, A
- Monforte de Lemos Lugo
- Muros Coruña, A
- Noia Coruña, A
- Ourense Ourense
- Padrón Coruña, A
- Pontedeume Coruña, A
- Pontevedra Pontevedra
- Ribadavia Ourense
- Ribadeo Lugo
- Santiago de Compostela Coruña, A
- Sanxenxo Pontevedra
- Tui Pontevedra
- Vigo Pontevedra
- Viveiro Lugo
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