Carballo
Carballo is the centre of the Bergantiños district in A Coruña province, with around thirty-one thousand residents. It sits between the Mariñas and the Costa da Morte, a few kilometres inland. This is not a seaside town but an ordinary working centre for its district, with its own market and its own schools.
For anyone moving the main thing here is price. This is the cheapest housing in our entire base. What you pay for it in is distance from the sea and from a big city: half an hour to A Coruña, twenty minutes to the Costa da Morte beaches. The climate is Galician: rain all year, a winter without frost, a cool summer, a sea cold even in August. There is almost no tourism, and the town runs on itself all year.
- A Coruña · 35 km — the provincial capital, airport and university
- Malpica de Bergantiños · 20 km — the fishing port on the Costa da Morte
- Razo · 12 km — the long beach and the surf
Carballo sits in Bergantiños, A Coruña, 7 km from the water. Winter here is livelier than in most towns on the Costa da Morte: our rating is 5 out of 5, one of the few on this coast that does not empty out. The sea is 7 km away: not a seaside town but a town near the sea, and the beach means a drive. Winters are damp at 80% humidity, so ask about mould before you sign.
Hospital, terrain, getting around
Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.
Carballo sea temperature by month
0 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 18.8 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Carballo beaches and water quality
sourceCarballo has 5 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 5 sampling points. In the 2025 season, all 5 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2016: Playa Arnados.
The grade is bacteria in water samples over the last four seasons — not sand, views or crowds. “Poor” means bathing there is advised against.
| Beach | From the centre | Grade 2025 | “Excellent” in a row | Last “poor” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Razo | 8.8 km | excellent | 9 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Arnados | 8.9 km | excellent | 6 seasons | 2016 |
| Playa Ria de Baldaio | 9.6 km | excellent | 17 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Sainas | 10 km | excellent | 36 seasons | none since 1990 |
| Playa Pedra Do Sal | 10.2 km | excellent | 24 seasons | none since 2002 |
Where from: European Environment Agency, bathing water register, seasons 1990–2025, licence CC BY 4.0. Distance is from the centre in a straight line. Every place in one table
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 1 437 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 480 € for a two-bedroom.
The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.
Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Carballo
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 380 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 480 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 620 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 340 €/mo | SERPAVI · 97 m² |
Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.
Schools nearby
estimateInternational schools counted in the base: 0. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.
Renting without a Spanish contract
How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.
- —4.9% foreign residents — the market is built for locals with a contract
This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.
Who lives here
INE 2025- Venezuela311
- Colombia175
- Senegal172
- Brazil117
- Peru85
- Cuba82
- Morocco67
- Uruguay63
- No notable foreign-language community with services recorded.
Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.
Winter direct flights from LCG
January 2026/2735 min to the airport- Switzerland1
- Italy1
Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.
Paperwork and practicalities
From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».
Articles that include this place
- Price per m² lies unless you ask what it measuresAppraised value and asking price differ systematically. On one pair of cities the difference in sources flips the comparison entirely.
- Renting long-term on the Spanish coast: what the law says and what tenants payThe five-year renewal and the seasonal lease, article by article. And what tenants on each coast pay under live leases: from tax records, not listings.
- Seven mistakes people make moving to coastal SpainEvery mistake counted across 132 coastal places: how many empty out in winter, where it is damp, where a car is unavoidable and where the sea is warm for three months.
- What a month on the Spanish coast costs, town by townOne identical scenario costed across all 132 places. The spread between towns is wider than between countries, and nearly as wide within a single coast.
- Where property is cheapest on the Spanish coast, on a single price basisThe housing ministry's appraised value, ranked by coast and by town, with the price of a 70 m² flat and local incomes alongside. Asking prices get a list of their own: the two bases never share a ranking.
- Which coastal towns are actually alive in winterMost resorts shut down from November to March. Tourists never notice; people moving there notice everything — and no directory measures it.