Pontevedra · Galicia
Cangas
An ever-growing resort whose prime appeal is a superb twenty-minute ferry ride across the ría from Vigo.
Why people fall for Cangas
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Across the Ría de Vigo from Vigo.
Worth the trip
- Praia de Rodeira, a beautiful sandy beach with majestic views
- Praia de Melide, an isolated cove backed by woods and a lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula
- A lively Friday market
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Vigo
Who Cangas is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Cangas lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 8 km from the sea · mild 25.1°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 8 km from the sea · 26,698 people
- Remote-working couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 8 km from the sea · 26,698 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 8 km from the sea · 26,698 people
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 9.9°C top 23% of 8,131 towns 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C top 7% of 8,131 towns 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 126 days bottom 4% of 8,088 towns 84% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.3 h/day bottom 12% of 3,829 towns 13% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 top 10% of 8,033 towns 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- €1,748/m² top 41% of 306 towns 21% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,034 bottom 46% of 8,059 towns 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27% top 43% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 17 top 3% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 9 km top 7% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 #8 of 17 regions, +7 vs national 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 35 min bottom 47% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days #3 of 17 regions, −30 days vs national 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 31 min top 8% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% top 19% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 26,698
- Born in Spain
- 93.5% 4.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.79 per 1,000
Numbers: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Cangas fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Cangas against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 32 min from Pontevedra, if that's your anchor.
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