Coruña, A · Galicia
Padrón
A pilgrim-legend town stranded inland by river silt, best known today as the source of the famous pimientos de Padrón peppers.
What Padrón is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
12km inland, on the Río Ulla, at the head of the Ría de Arousa.
On the table. Source of the small green pimientos de Padrón, shallow-fried in oil and salted; most are sweet, but about one in ten is memorably hot.
Worth the trip
- A seventeenth-century church of Santiago, said to hold the actual mooring post (padrón) under its high altar
- Casa Museo Rosalía de Castro, the house of the 19th-century Galego poet, now a museum
A little history
According to legend, St James completed his miraculous posthumous voyage to Galicia by sailing up the Ría de Arousa as far as Padrón.
Who it suits: Food pilgrims · Literary pilgrims (Rosalía de Castro)
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
- 9.8°C 2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 25.3°C 4.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 139 days 103% 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
- €13,758 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 38.3 per 1,000 13% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 5
- Nearest international school
- 19 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 31 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
- 38 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 83% 4% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 96% 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 8,324
- Born in Spain
- 93% 4.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 1.6% 2.2% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.72 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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