Lugo · Galicia
Viveiro
Now much more of a tourist centre than a port, its old town still protected by the vestiges of its Renaissance walls.
What Viveiro is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
60km west of the Asturian border.
Worth the trip
- Glass-fronted houses in delicate wooden frames lining largely traffic-free streets
- Praia de Covas, a ten-minute walk across a causeway
- Praia de Faro, further up towards the open sea
Who it suits: Beach holidaymakers
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
- 11°C 3.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.1°C 8.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 137 days 100% 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
- €14,698 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10
- Nearest international school
- 73 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 36 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
- 92 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 15,091
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.52 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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