Sada
Sada is a coastal municipality on the Betanzos inlet, twenty kilometres from A Coruña. It belongs to the provincial capital's urban area and lives on fishing and holidays. The Casa dos Galegos, an early twentieth-century modernist pavilion, stands on its seafront.
For anyone moving, Sada is a suburb of A Coruña with the sea attached: twenty minutes to the city, and plenty of people live here and work there. Housing costs less than in the capital itself. In summer the town fills up — people come for weekends and holidays — but it does not empty in winter, because it rests on permanent residents. The climate is Galician: rain all year, a sea cold even in August, green and without heat.
- A Coruña · 20 km — the provincial capital, airport and university
- Betanzos · 15 km — the old town at the head of the inlet
- Pontedeume · 20 km — the town with its bridge and the Fragas do Eume forest
Sada sits in As Mariñas, A Coruña, right on the water. Winters are damp at 78% humidity, so ask about mould before you sign. The airport is 20 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database. Summers are packed: tourist load hits 5 out of 5 at the peak against 1 in winter.
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.
Sada sea temperature by month
0 months above 20 °CsourceAverage sea surface temperature, °C, for 2015–2024 — NOAA OISST satellite series, grid cell 8.5 km from the centre.
Tourist load
Sada beaches and water quality
sourceSada has 6 beaches tested under EU bathing water rules, at 6 sampling points. In the 2025 season, 3 of 6 were graded excellent. The last “poor” grade here was in 2016: Playa Sada Delicias.
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 Sada Nova | 0.1 km | good | — | none since 2008 |
| Playa Sada Delicias | 0.4 km | good | — | 2016 |
| Playa Morazon | 1.5 km | excellent | 5 seasons | none since 2002 |
| Playa Arnela | 2 km | excellent | 24 seasons | none since 2002 |
| Playa San Pedro - Sada | 4.5 km | good | — | none since 1990 |
| Playa Cirro | 5 km | excellent | 1 season | none since 1990 |
No longer tested: Playa Lourido - Sada (last season 2007).
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 1 196 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 650 € 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: Sada
Rent by number of bedrooms
asking price, estimate| 1 bedroom | 480 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 650 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 850 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 425 €/mo | SERPAVI · 80 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.
- —7.8% 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- Venezuela324
- Colombia208
- Peru104
- Brazil77
- Italy69
- Portugal66
- Uruguay55
- Romania49
- 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 2026/2720 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
- How long the swimming season actually lasts«Three hundred days of sunshine» is said of every coast. You swim in the water, and by water the places range from two months to nine.
- 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.
- Retiring to coastal Spain: who already lives there, how far the hospital is, and whether the town stays open in winterThe share of residents over 65 and over 80 in every place we cover, from the INE census, the drive to the nearest public hospital, and the measured winter score. No ranking: only what the numbers show.
Where to look next
- San Javier1 941 €/m²
- Tarragona1 843 €/m²
- Puerto del Rosario1 958 €/m²