Coruña, A · Galicia
Betanzos
An ancient town built on a pre-Roman site so old its once-seafront hill now stands well inland — home to the world's largest paper balloon launch every August.
What Betanzos is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
20km southeast of A Coruña, at the head of the Ría de Betanzos, at the confluence of the Mendo and Mandeo rivers.
Worth the trip
- The Gothic church of Santiago on Plaza da Constitución
- The twelfth-century church of Santa María do Azougue, and the Gothic Igrexa de San Francisco holding the tomb of Conde Fernán Perez de Andrade
Fiestas
- Fiesta del Globo, 16 August, launching the world's largest paper balloon
- A medieval festival, second weekend of July
A little history
Built on a pre-Roman site so old that what was once a steep seafront hill now stands well inland.
Who it suits: Medieval-history travellers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 10.4°C 2.6°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.6°C 6.6°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 127 days 85% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 5.4 h/day 25% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,407 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.3%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 38.3 per 1,000 13% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 6
- Nearest international school
- 16 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 20 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 17 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 95% 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 13,508
- Born in Spain
- 85.5% 3.3% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.1% 1.7% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.26 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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