Pontevedra · Galicia
Tui
The principal Galego frontier town on the Miño, staring across to the Portuguese ramparts of Valença do Minho.
Why people fall for Tui
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
24km inland from A Guarda.
Worth the trip
- An imposing fortress-like Catedral dedicated to San Telmo, patron saint of fishermen
- An iron bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel leading to the Portuguese border
- Ravishing Valença do Minho just across the border
Who it suits: Border-crossing day-trippers
Who Tui 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 Tui lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 16 km from the sea · mild 25.1°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 16 km from the sea · 17,499 people
- Remote-working couples 94th percentile of 8,132 towns 16 km from the sea · 17,499 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 92nd percentile of 8,132 towns 16 km from the sea · 17,499 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
- 9.9°C top 23% of 8,131 towns 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C top 7% of 8,131 towns 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 126 days bottom 4% of 8,088 towns 84% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.3 h/day bottom 12% of 3,829 towns 13% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- 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
- €12,688 bottom 26% of 8,059 towns 12% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.7% top 46% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 16 top 4% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 11 km top 9% 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
- 27 min top 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
- 25 min top 5% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 75% bottom 23% of 8,132 towns 4% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 91% bottom 41% of 8,132 towns 7% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 17,499
- Born in Spain
- 86.9% 1.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 6% 2.1% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.63 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 Tui 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 Tui against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 26 min from Vigo, if that's your anchor.
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