Pontevedra · Galicia
Illa de Arousa, A
A wooded island holding great beaches, effectively part of the mainland via a 2km bridge, with a natural park at its narrow southern tip.
What Illa de Arousa, A is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Connected to the mainland by a 2km bridge.
Worth the trip
- Half a dozen fine, isolated beaches backed by trees and saltwater marshes loved by migratory water birds
- The Parque Carreirón natural park
Who it suits: Beach walkers
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
- 11.1°C 3.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 26.5°C 3.7°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 126 days 84% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6 h/day 17% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- no local data
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €11,380 21% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27.9%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 35.2 per 1,000 20% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 22 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 22 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
- 57 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 4,813
- Born in Spain
- 95.1% 6.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.5% 1.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.08 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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