Coruña, A · Galicia
Pontedeume
One of the characterful small towns along Galicia's dramatic, sparsely populated Rías Altas coast.
What Pontedeume is like
Portrait drawn from Lonely Planet.
On the Rías Altas, Galicia's northern coast east of A Coruña.
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
- 10.4°C 2.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.6°C 6.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 127 days 85% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.4 h/day 25% 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
- €14,488 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.1%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 38.3 per 1,000 13% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 21 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 32 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
- 29 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 7,428
- Born in Spain
- 93% 4.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.35 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.
How does Pontedeume fit you?
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