Coruña, A · Galicia
Laxe
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming.
Why people fall for Laxe
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km southwest of Malpica, on the Costa da Morte.
Worth the trip
- A café-lined waterfront facing a long safe-swimming beach
- Praia de Soesto and the cove Praia de Arnado nearby
- The Praia de Traba, a massively long beach 6km south backed by dunes
Who it suits: Overnight stop on the Costa da Morte · Beach swimmers
Who Laxe 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 Laxe lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 14 km from the sea · mild 23°C summer highs
- Remote-working couples 91st percentile of 8,132 towns 14 km from the sea · a real food scene
- Budget-first coastal settlers 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 14 km from the sea · 2,881 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°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 7.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 157 days bottom 1% of 8,088 towns 129% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 top 10% of 8,033 towns 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €12,940 bottom 29% of 8,059 towns 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32% top 19% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 50 km bottom 45% 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
- 43 min bottom 36% 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
- 60 min top 36% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 30% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 36% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,881
- Born in Spain
- 93.1% 4.3% 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
- 0.69 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 Laxe 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 Laxe against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 53 min from Coruña, A, if that's your anchor.
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