Coruña, A · Galicia
Laxe
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming.
What Laxe is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km southwest of Malpica, on the Costa da Morte.
Worth the trip
- A café-lined waterfront facing a long safe-swimming beach
- Praia de Soesto and the cove Praia de Arnado nearby
- The Praia de Traba, a massively long beach 6km south backed by dunes
Who it suits: Overnight stop on the Costa da Morte · Beach swimmers
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
- 9°C 1.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23°C 7.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 157 days 129% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,940 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 50 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 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
- 60 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,881
- Born in Spain
- 93.1% 4.3% 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
- 0.69 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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