Lugo · Galicia
Monforte de Lemos
A satisfyingly unspoiled and ancient rail-junction overnight stop, home to an incongruously gigantic yet elegant Renaissance college.
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Why people fall for Monforte de Lemos
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
66km south of Lugo, along the C546.
Worth the trip
- An incongruously gigantic yet elegant Renaissance Colegio
- The Torre de Homenaxe and a 400-year-old monastery, now home to an imposing parador
Who it suits: Overnight stop travellers
Who Monforte de Lemos 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 Monforte de Lemos lands.
Monforte de Lemos is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 73rd and 86th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
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
- 8.2°C top 36% of 8,131 towns 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.4°C top 48% of 8,131 towns 0.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 103 days bottom 10% of 8,088 towns 50% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 2 top 1% of 8,033 towns 54 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,384 bottom 36% of 8,059 towns 8% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.7% bottom 42% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 13 top 5% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 95 km bottom 14% 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
- 0 min top 1% 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
- 106 min bottom 21% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 84% bottom 36% of 8,132 towns 5% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 91% bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 8% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 18,989
- Born in Spain
- 80.2% 8.6% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 4% 0.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.21 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 Monforte de Lemos 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 Monforte de Lemos against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 42 min from Ourense, if that's your anchor.
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