Pontevedra · Galicia
Tui
The principal Galego frontier town on the Miño, staring across to the Portuguese ramparts of Valença do Minho.
What Tui is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km inland from A Guarda.
Worth the trip
- An imposing fortress-like Catedral dedicated to San Telmo, patron saint of fishermen
- An iron bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel leading to the Portuguese border
- Ravishing Valença do Minho just across the border
Who it suits: Border-crossing day-trippers
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
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 126 days 84% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.3 h/day 13% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 1 55 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,688 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.7%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 35.2 per 1,000 20% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 16
- Nearest international school
- 11 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 27 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
- 25 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 75% 4% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 91% 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 17,499
- Born in Spain
- 86.9% 1.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6% 2.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.63 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 Tui fit you?
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