Girona is a provincial capital of 108,352 people on INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion at 1 January 2025, and its most useful fact reads like a transcription error. In Idealista's asking-price report for July 2026, the province of Girona sits above the city of Girona per square metre. The reflex that a capital always outprices its province gives the wrong answer here, so the province row is the dearer of the two, and it is a province-wide figure rather than a reading of any particular coastal town.
Who lives there is counted two ways and the two do not agree. On nationality, INE publishes 23,753 foreign nationals, a little over one in five residents; on country of birth, 31,916 people born abroad, close to three in ten. Both totals are INE's own published figures; the shares are ours. Honduras is the largest birthplace group, ahead of Morocco and Colombia.
Coverage is thin in one specific way, and worth knowing before you compare areas: Idealista prices seven of the fourteen Girona districts it lists, so half the named areas carry no asking figure at all. Against that, two things are clean. AVE calls at Girona's own station inside the municipality, and the Government of Catalonia names a single reference hospital for the area, the Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
High-speed rail at the city's own station
Adif prints Girona station, code 79300, at Pza. de Espanya, 17002 Girona, inside the municipality, and lists AVE among the services shown on that page, alongside Avant, Euromed, Media Distancia and Rodalies.
A single named reference hospital for the area
The Government of Catalonia's note of 16 April 2024, constituting the Girona health region's hospital network, names Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta as the reference for complexity for the hospitals of Figueres, Palamos, Olot, Santa Caterina and Blanes.
Santa Eugenia still sits below its 2011 record
Idealista records Santa Eugenia's all-time-high asking figure in March 2011, above where the district sits in the July 2026 table. It is one of only two priced Girona districts asking less per square metre than the city as a whole.
A large born-abroad population, counted by INE
INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion records 31,916 Girona residents born abroad at 1 January 2025, close to three in ten, with Honduras, Morocco and Colombia the three largest birthplace groups it publishes.
An airport with real passenger volume
Aena's Girona-Costa Brava handled 2,185,561 passenger movements across calendar year 2025. Movements are not tourist arrivals and we do not convert one into the other, but this is an airport with meaningful commercial traffic.
Half the listed districts carry no price
Idealista lists fourteen Girona districts and prices seven. Carme-Vistalegre, Devesa, Fontajau-Domeny, Montjuic, Pont Major-Pedret, Sant Daniel-Vila Roja and Talaia - Germans Sabat appear in the selector with no asking figure attached to them.
Leaving the city may not mean paying less
The province of Girona carries a higher asking figure per square metre than the city in Idealista's July 2026 report. Whatever a move out to the province buys, on the province-wide average it is not a lower price per square metre.
No local rail line roster we can publish
The Generalitat's Rodalies site is closed to us by robots.txt, so which local lines serve Girona is not established. The RODALIES-R11157xx strings on the Adif board are train numbers, not line codes, and cannot be read as a list.
The climate normals come from another municipality
AEMET's station 0367 is printed as Girona Aeropuerto, but the page prints its municipality as Vilobí d'Onyar, at 143 metres. We publish no distances, so treat the record as a station reading rather than the city's own street-level climate.
Annual price changes cross a methodology boundary
Idealista says that from July 2026 it strengthened the index's quality filters, discarding temporary-rental listings and atypical products such as auction properties. The annual changes in that report therefore straddle the change and are not a clean like-for-like measure.
Editor's note
If Girona does not fit, four other cities in our guides are worth putting beside it.
Tarragona is the mirror image on rail. Adif prints the address of its high-speed station in la Secuita, a different municipality, so the one advantage Girona has cleanly is exactly the one Tarragona lacks. We publish no distances, so we cannot tell you what that costs in practice.
Barcelona buys scale and loses simplicity. Metro line L9 runs as two separate sections on the council's own line list, and the two tram networks are still not joined, so a map that looks like one network is in places a plan rather than a service.
Zaragoza is the city where we omit the reference hospital field altogether, because it is split across three sanitary sectors and naming one would be wrong for most of it. Its tram is Line 1, with the operator naming no second.
Granada has run a single metro line since September 2017, with a southern extension under construction and no completion date given.
Girona's own weakness is coverage rather than quality: half its listed districts carry no published asking price, which is thin relative to what Idealista lists.
Updated 2026-09-01
Updated 2026-09-01
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearest of the seven Girona districts idealista prices, at about two thirds above the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 somewhat ahead of the city's own pace.
Second dearest of the seven priced districts, about a quarter above the municipal figure per square metre. Barcelona and Tarragona each have a district of this name at a different price; this row is Girona's.
Third of the seven priced districts, roughly a ninth above the municipal figure per square metre, and it rose over the year to July 2026 a little ahead of the pace of the city as a whole.
Fourth of the seven priced districts, a little above the municipal figure per square metre, and much the slowest riser of them over the year to July 2026, at rather over a quarter of the city's own pace.
Fifth of the seven priced districts and a shade above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at around half the pace of the city as a whole.
Sixth of the seven priced districts, at about four fifths of the municipal figure per square metre, and one of only two priced districts here that sits below the municipal figure at all.
Cheapest of the seven districts idealista prices in Girona, at about two thirds of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 a shade behind the city's own pace.
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