Coruña, A · Galicia
Laxe
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming.
Living in Laxe
Laxe is a small harbour town of 2,900 on Galicia's Costa da Morte, sheltering behind a stout sea wall in front of a broad sandy beach that offers the safest swimming on this wild coast. It's overwhelmingly Galician and quiet out of season. Like all this stretch, it is soaked and cool — well over two metres of rain a year and some 157 rainy days, with summers barely into the low 20s and mild winters. The nearest hospital is over forty minutes away and A Coruña about an hour, so it suits people who want long beaches and the drama of the Coast of Death over convenience.
Laxe's Spainability Scores — by who's moving
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities. Each score is Laxe's percentile for that group — 87 means it beats 87% of the towns we could score. How scoring works.
Higher than 100% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for heat-averse settlers.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick if you can't stand hot summers — 9 km from the sea and mild 23°C summer highs.
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 23°C
- Rainy days a year 157 days
- Summer water stress (WEI+) 7
- Winter average temp 9°C
Higher than 100% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for remote workers.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick for a remote-working couple — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.14/m²·mo) and 9 km from the sea.
- 100 Mbps+ coverage 97%
- Drive to nearest airport 60 min
- Registered long-let rent €3.14/m²·mo
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 23°C
Higher than 99% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for budget-first coastal settlers.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick for coastal living on a budget — low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.14/m²·mo) and 9 km from the sea.
- Registered long-let rent €3.14/m²·mo
- Net income per person €12,940
- Summer high (Jul–Aug) 23°C
Higher than 98% of the 2,555 Spanish municipalities we could score for families.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick for a family with school-age kids — 9 km from the sea and low cost of living (registered rent ~€3.14/m²·mo).
- Schools in town 1
- PISA maths (region) 486
- Registered long-let rent €3.14/m²·mo
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
Higher than 89% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for American retirees.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick for American retirees — a health centre close by and 43 min to a hospital.
- Winter average temp 9°C
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
- U.S.-born residents 0.69 per 1,000
- Registered long-let rent €3.14/m²·mo
Higher than 82% of the 8,088 Spanish municipalities we could score for retiring couples.
A small harbour town behind a formidable sea wall, with a broad expanse of fine sandy beach offering the area's safest swimming. A strong pick for a retiring couple — a health centre close by and 43 min to a hospital.
- Winter average temp 9°C
- Drive to a hospital 43 min
- Surgical wait (region) 73 days
- Registered long-let rent €3.14/m²·mo
What is the climate like in Laxe?
Laxe's reported winter average is 9°C, while July–August highs reach 23°C.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 9°C top 30% of 8,131 towns 1.2°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23°C top 4% of 8,131 towns 7.2°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 157 days bottom 1% of 8,088 towns 129% 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)
- River-flood depth (T=100, town centre) estimated
- 0 m top 1% of 8,129 towns 0.04 m below the Spanish average (0.04 m)
- River-flood risk score estimated
- 0 top 1% of 8,129 towns about the Spanish average (0)
- Wildfire burn rate (2010–23)
- 2.86 ha/km² bottom 10% of 8,132 towns 0.55 ha/km² above the Spanish average (2.31 ha/km²)
- Forest fires (2010–23)
- 1 top 39% of 8,132 towns 5 below the Spanish average (6)
- High fire-weather days (province) regional estimate
- 15.5% top 1% of 8,130 towns 7.4% below the Spanish average (22.9%)
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How good is healthcare in Laxe?
Laxe's nearest health centre is 3.5 km away, and the reported hospital drive is 43 min.
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min bottom 36% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 3.5 km top 18% of 8,132 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days #3 of 17 regions, −30 days vs national 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
What are schools like in Laxe?
Laxe has 1 schools in town; the nearest international school is 50 km away.
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 50 km bottom 42% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 #8 of 17 regions, +7 vs national 5 above the Spanish average (481)
How much does it cost to live in Laxe?
Laxe's reported registered long-let rent is €3.14/m²·mo.
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Asking price
- no local data
- Registered long-let rent
- €3.14/m²·mo
- Registered rent p25
- €2.38/m²·mo
- Registered rent p75
- €4/m²·mo
- Registered-rent yield
- no reliable sale-price data — yield not imputed
- Net income per person
- €12,940 bottom 29% of 8,059 towns 11% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 32% top 19% of 6,605 towns
Which languages are used in schools in Laxe?
Galician and Spanish are co-official in Galicia. Public schools use both languages, with substantial Galician-medium teaching rather than a Spanish-only default; the balance can vary by school. See the Galicia region guide for the wider regional context.
What is the community like in Laxe?
Laxe's reported population is 2,881.
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,881
- Born in Spain
- 93.1% 4.3% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.5% 1.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.69 per 1,000
How easy is it to get around Laxe?
Laxe is a reported 60 min drive from the nearest airport, with 94% fibre-to-home coverage.
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 60 min top 36% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% top 30% of 8,132 towns 16% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 97% top 36% of 8,132 towns 13% above the Spanish average (83%)
Numbers: Spainability town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Registered long-let rent is SERPAVI declared-contract data; its p25–p75 values show the observed band. Registered-rent yield is gross, excludes costs and is never imputed. 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.
How does Laxe 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 Laxe against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 53 min from Coruña, A, if that's your anchor.
Take the quiz — rank Laxe for you →Questions to verify locally
- Ask whether current long-let rents match the registered-contract figure.
- Request comparable sales; neither appraisal nor asking data is published.
- Test fibre speed at the exact address, not the town average.
- Visit local schools and confirm places for incoming families.
- Confirm health-centre registration and opening hours in person.
- Ask an insurer how the mapped flood or wildfire exposure affects cover.
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