Ourense · Galicia
Celanova
Hardly more than a village, overshadowed by a vast and palatial Benedictine monastery where a king retired into monastic life.
Why people fall for Celanova
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
35km southeast of Ribadavia, along the south bank of the Miño.
Worth the trip
- The Monasterio de San Salvador, with two superb cloisters (Renaissance and Baroque) and a cathedral-sized church
- The tiny, tenth-century Mozarabic chapel of San Miguel in the garden
A little history
Felipe V retired into monastic life here, having spent much of his reign securing the throne in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-13).
Who it suits: Monastery/architecture travellers
Who Celanova 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 Celanova lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 62 km from the sea · mild 27.8°C summer highs
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
- 7.4°C top 44% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 27.8°C top 16% of 8,131 towns 2.4°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 107 days bottom 9% of 8,088 towns 56% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 1 top 1% of 8,033 towns 55 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,647 bottom 25% of 8,059 towns 13% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 28.1% top 37% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5 top 12% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 57 km bottom 38% 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
- 28 min top 38% 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
- 77 min bottom 46% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 88% bottom 44% of 8,132 towns 9% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 87% bottom 31% of 8,132 towns 3% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 5,695
- Born in Spain
- 79.3% 9.5% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 5.44 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 Celanova 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 Celanova against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 27 min from Ourense, if that's your anchor.
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