Coruña, A · Galicia
Padrón
A pilgrim-legend town stranded inland by river silt, best known today as the source of the famous pimientos de Padrón peppers.
Why people fall for Padrón
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
12km inland, on the Río Ulla, at the head of the Ría de Arousa.
On the table. Source of the small green pimientos de Padrón, shallow-fried in oil and salted; most are sweet, but about one in ten is memorably hot.
Worth the trip
- A seventeenth-century church of Santiago, said to hold the actual mooring post (padrón) under its high altar
- Casa Museo Rosalía de Castro, the house of the 19th-century Galego poet, now a museum
A little history
According to legend, St James completed his miraculous posthumous voyage to Galicia by sailing up the Ría de Arousa as far as Padrón.
Who it suits: Food pilgrims · Literary pilgrims (Rosalía de Castro)
Who Padrón 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 Padrón lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 29 km from the sea · mild 25.3°C summer highs
- Remote-working couples 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 8,324 people · 29 km from the sea
- Families with school-age kids 95th percentile of 8,132 towns 29 km from the sea · 8,324 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 8,324 people · 29 km from the sea
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
- 9.8°C top 25% of 8,131 towns 2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.3°C top 8% of 8,131 towns 4.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 139 days bottom 1% of 8,088 towns 103% 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
- €13,758 bottom 42% of 8,059 towns 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.5% top 25% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5 top 12% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 19 km top 19% 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
- 31 min top 44% 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
- 38 min top 13% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% bottom 33% of 8,132 towns 4% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% top 37% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,324
- Born in Spain
- 93% 4.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.72 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 Padrón 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 Padrón against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 31 min from Santiago de Compostela, if that's your anchor.
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