Coruña, A · Galicia
Noia
A onetime port of Santiago with a fanciful legend of naming after Noah, centred on a medieval core with an impressive church.
What Noia is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
25km east of Muros, near the head of the ría.
Worth the trip
- The medieval core, dominated by the impressive church of San Martino overlooking a delightful ancient square
A little history
Legend holds it is named after Noah, whose Ark supposedly struck land nearby; it was once Santiago's port.
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
- 7.3°C 0.5°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 20.4°C 9.8°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 138 days 101% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 7 49 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,409 7% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 24.6%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 38.3 per 1,000 13% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 8
- Nearest international school
- 30 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 36 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
- 42 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 87% 8% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 98% 15% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 14,108
- Born in Spain
- 91.4% 2.6% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.4% 1.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.35 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 Noia fit you?
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