Lugo · Galicia
Monforte de Lemos
A satisfyingly unspoiled and ancient rail-junction overnight stop, home to an incongruously gigantic yet elegant Renaissance college.
What Monforte de Lemos is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
66km south of Lugo, along the C546.
Worth the trip
- An incongruously gigantic yet elegant Renaissance Colegio
- The Torre de Homenaxe and a 400-year-old monastery, now home to an imposing parador
Who it suits: Overnight stop travellers
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
- 8.2°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.4°C 0.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 103 days 50% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 2 54 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,384 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.7%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13
- Nearest international school
- 95 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 0 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
- 106 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 84% 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 91% 8% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 18,989
- Born in Spain
- 80.2% 8.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.21 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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