Vega de San Mateo is a town and a municipality in the mountainous central part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

[1] Vega de San Mateo is located 17 km southwest of Las Palmas.

Vega de San Mateo is located in the center of Gran Canaria.

Vega de San Mateo has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csb; Trewartha: Csbk), as the precipitation in winter is high enough, and the rainy season (October to March of the following year) accounts for 91% of the annual precipitation.

The town's annual precipitation is 566.2 millimetres (22.29 in), which is about 4 to 5 times that of coastal areas.