Pontevedra · Galicia
Cangas
An ever-growing resort whose prime appeal is a superb twenty-minute ferry ride across the ría from Vigo.
What Cangas is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
Across the Ría de Vigo from Vigo.
Worth the trip
- Praia de Rodeira, a beautiful sandy beach with majestic views
- Praia de Melide, an isolated cove backed by woods and a lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula
- A lively Friday market
Who it suits: Day-trippers from Vigo
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
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.1°C 5.1°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 126 days 84% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 6.3 h/day 13% 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
- €1,748/m² 21% less than the Spanish average (€2,208/m²)
- Net income per person
- €14,034 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 27%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 36.8 per 1,000 16% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 17
- Nearest international school
- 9 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 35 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
- 31 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 26,698
- Born in Spain
- 93.5% 4.7% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.5% 2.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.79 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.
How does Cangas fit you?
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