Coruña, A · Galicia
Noia
A onetime port of Santiago with a fanciful legend of naming after Noah, centred on a medieval core with an impressive church.
Why people fall for Noia
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
25km east of Muros, near the head of the ría.
Worth the trip
- The medieval core, dominated by the impressive church of San Martino overlooking a delightful ancient square
A little history
Legend holds it is named after Noah, whose Ark supposedly struck land nearby; it was once Santiago's port.
Who Noia 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 Noia lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 98th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · mild 20.4°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 14,108 people
- Remote-working couples 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 13 km from the sea · 14,108 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
- 7.3°C top 47% of 8,131 towns 0.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C top 1% of 8,131 towns 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 138 days bottom 1% of 8,088 towns 101% 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
- €13,409 bottom 36% of 8,059 towns 7% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.6% bottom 41% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 8 top 8% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 30 km top 32% 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
- 36 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
- 42 min top 16% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% bottom 42% of 8,132 towns 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% top 26% of 8,132 towns 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 14,108
- Born in Spain
- 91.4% 2.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.35 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 Noia 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 Noia against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 35 min from Santiago de Compostela, if that's your anchor.
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