Lugo · Galicia
Viveiro
Now much more of a tourist centre than a port, its old town still protected by the vestiges of its Renaissance walls.
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Why people fall for Viveiro
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
60km west of the Asturian border.
Worth the trip
- Glass-fronted houses in delicate wooden frames lining largely traffic-free streets
- Praia de Covas, a ten-minute walk across a causeway
- Praia de Faro, further up towards the open sea
Who it suits: Beach holidaymakers
Who Viveiro 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 Viveiro lands.
Good for
- Heat-averse settlers 97th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · mild 22.1°C summer highs
- Families with school-age kids 96th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · 15,091 people
- Remote-working couples 93rd percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · 15,091 people
- Budget-first coastal settlers 90th percentile of 8,132 towns 5 km from the sea · 15,091 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
- 11°C top 16% of 8,131 towns 3.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 22.1°C top 2% of 8,131 towns 8.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 137 days bottom 2% of 8,088 towns 100% 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
- €14,698 top 44% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.1% bottom 39% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 10 top 6% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 73 km bottom 27% 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
- 92 min bottom 32% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% top 39% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 33% of 8,132 towns 14% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 15,091
- Born in Spain
- 85.4% 3.4% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.52 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 Viveiro 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 Viveiro against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 82 min from Lugo, if that's your anchor.
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