Pontevedra · Galicia
Sanxenxo
Galicia's flagship summer beach resort — a long string of small sandy beaches and seasonal hotels merging into Portonovo, lively and nightlife-driven in season, quiet the rest of the year.
What Sanxenxo is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide & The Rough Guide.
On the north shore of the Ría de Pontevedra, about 17km west of Pontevedra and near the La Lanzada beach, with a marina and the Paseo Marítimo seafront.
Worth the trip
- Praia de Silgar and the beach-lined Paseo Marítimo
- A landmark sculpture set on a rock offshore, the town's emblem
- Ferry departures to the Illa de Ons
Fiestas
- Fiesta de San Ginés (25 August)
Who it suits: Beach-and-nightlife summer holidaymakers · Families wanting a lively seaside base
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
- 10.5°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.8°C 4.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 130 days 90% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.2 h/day 14% 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
- €13,605 6% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 29.7%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 35.2 per 1,000 20% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 11
- Nearest international school
- 14 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 29 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
- 47 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 89% 10% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 17,990
- Born in Spain
- 90.5% 1.7% 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
- 0.83 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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