Barri Vell
330.000 - 740.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure.
Historic
108.352
Population
29.8° / 13.1°
Summer peak / Winter day
21.9%
Foreign residents
€2,828
Avg €/m²
Updated 19 Sept 2026How we source our data →
Living in Girona
Girona is a provincial capital of 108,352 people 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. The headline count and both totals here are INE's own published figures, all from the Censo Anual de Poblacion; 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
Honestly considered, both sides.
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
The case for
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.
Nearly a third born abroad
Close to three in ten Girona residents were born abroad, with Honduras, Morocco and Colombia the largest birthplace groups.
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.
The case against
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 the 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
Where you might be better off elsewhere
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.
Girona on the map
Lifestyle data
Climate
29.8° / 13.1°
Summer peak / Winter day
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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Low 7.1°CHigh 23.6°C
- Annual mean
- 14.7°C
- Rain days
- 65.8/yr
Vilobí d'Onyar municipality, station: Girona Aeropuerto, 9 km south west
Average 1981-2010 · AEMET
Property market
€2,828
/m²
+10.9% year on year
Updated 1 Sept 2026
Access
GIRONA AIRPORT
Girona-Costa Brava
Community
21.9%
Foreign residents
INE Annual Population Census, nationality basis, 1 January 2025
Girona neighborhoods
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Eixample
240.000 - 560.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure. Barcelona and Tarragona each have a district of this name at a different price; this row is Girona's.
Central
Migdia Casernes
220.000 - 500.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure.
Residential
Montilivi-Pericot
210.000 - 490.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure, and it is rising more slowly than the municipality over the year.
Residential
Palau
210.000 - 470.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced above the municipal asking figure.
Residential
Sant Narcís
160.000 - 370.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced below the municipal asking figure.
Residential
Santa Eugenia
130.000 - 300.000 €Indicative guide pricesIt is priced below the municipal asking figure.
Residential
Girona FAQ
Honest answers to the questions buyers actually ask.
Is the city or the wider province the dearer buy?+
In Idealista's asking-price report for July 2026, the province of Girona carries a higher figure per square metre than the city of Girona. That is the reverse of what most people expect, and it survives a sanity check badly: the province row and the city row are labelled almost identically, and only the URL separates them. Two limits are worth holding on to. These are asking prices taken from listings, not sale deeds, and a province average is not a stand-in for any particular coastal town.
How many people live in Girona?+
Two INE operations answer that differently for the same date. The Censo Anual de Poblacion gives 108,352 residents at 1 January 2025; the padron revision gives 108,666 for the same day. The gap of 314 is not reconciled anywhere, so we quote the Censo Anual throughout and name it wherever a share depends on it. The province of Girona is a separate figure entirely, 832,026 on the padron, and INE returns near-identical labels for the city and the province.
Which Girona districts have published prices?+
Seven of the fourteen districts Idealista lists. Priced are Barri Vell, Eixample, Migdia Casernes, Montilivi-Pericot, Palau, Sant Narcis and Santa Eugenia, with Barri Vell carrying the highest figure in that table and Santa Eugenia the lowest. Listed but unpriced are Carme-Vistalegre, Devesa, Fontajau-Domeny, Montjuic, Pont Major-Pedret, Sant Daniel-Vila Roja and Talaia - Germans Sabat. Only Sant Narcis and Santa Eugenia ask less per square metre than the city figure, so the city figure is not a midpoint of its districts.
Can I take a high-speed train from Girona itself?+
Yes. Adif's page for station 79300 prints the address as Pza. de Espanya, 17002 Girona, inside the municipality, and lists AVE among the services shown, along with Avant, Euromed, Media Distancia and Rodalies. We publish no frequencies, timetables or journey times. What we cannot give you is the local commuter picture: the Generalitat's Rodalies site is closed to us by robots.txt, so which Rodalies lines serve the city is not established on our side.
How many residents are foreign?+
It depends which measure you mean, and the two are far apart. On nationality, the annual census publishes 23,753 foreign nationals at 1 January 2025, a little over one in five residents. On country of birth it publishes 31,916 people born abroad, close to three in ten. Both totals are INE's own published figures; the shares are ours. The five largest birthplace groups are Honduras, Morocco, Colombia, Romania and Argentina; read on nationality instead, the fifth is China.
What does the climate record actually show?+
The published normals for the period 1981 to 2010 come from station 0367, printed as Girona Aeropuerto, whose municipality the page prints as Vilobí d'Onyar, at 143 metres. It records an annual mean of 14.7 degrees, a mean daily maximum of 20.8 and a mean daily minimum of 8.6, with 728 mm of rainfall, 41.3 frost days and 48 foggy days across the year. The annual sunshine total is printed as a dash, and we do not build one by adding the months.
Which hospital is the reference for Girona?+
Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta. The Government of Catalonia's note of 16 April 2024, constituting the hospital network of the Girona health region, names Trueta as the reference for complexity for the hospitals of Figueres, Palamos, Olot, Santa Caterina and Blanes. Reference is not the same as nearest, and we publish no distances. One caution generalises from that same note: it refers Hospital Sant Jaume de Calella to a centre outside the region, so a health-region map does not settle where anyone is referred.
Is there an airport?+
Aena operates an airport it names Girona-Costa Brava, which handled 2,185,561 passenger movements across calendar year 2025. Passenger movements are not tourist arrivals and we do not convert one into the other. One detail to hold lightly: the AEMET weather station co-located there prints its municipality as Vilobí d'Onyar rather than Girona. We publish no distances, so we report the municipality each page prints and stop there.
What are the costs of buying property in Girona?+
When buying property in Girona, budget for property transfer tax (ITP) of 10% up to €600,000 (11% up to €900,000, 12% up to €1,500,000, 13% above that, progressive bands determine the average rate applied to the taxable base) [ATC: https://atc.gencat.cat/es/tributs/itpajd/tpo/tarifes-tipus/], plus roughly 3-4% in notary, land registry and legal fees. Agency commission is usually paid by the seller. On the mainland and the Balearics, new builds pay VAT (IVA) of 10% plus AJD stamp duty instead of ITP. Transfer tax is set by Cataluña rather than nationally, and reduced rates can apply for main homes and younger buyers.
What are the ongoing costs of owning property in Girona?+
Annual property ownership costs in Girona include IBI (property tax) of 0.4-1.1% of cadastral value, community fees (for apartments), rubbish collection tax (basura), utility bills, and property insurance. Budget approximately 2-4% of property value per year for all running costs. IBI is set by the town hall of Girona within a national band, so it is municipal rather than regional.
What taxes do I pay when selling property in Girona?+
When selling property in Girona, you pay capital gains tax (plusvalía) on the profit at rates of 19-26% depending on the gain amount. Non-residents have 3% of the sale price withheld at completion. You may also pay municipal capital gains tax. Main residence exemptions may apply for residents over 65. Capital gains tax is national, so it is the same in Cataluña as anywhere in Spain. Plusvalia municipal is set by the town hall of Girona and has had two calculation methods since the 2021 reform, so ask your lawyer which one is cheaper for you.
Can I still get a Golden Visa by buying property in Spain?+
No. Spain withdrew the Golden Visa property investment route in April 2025, so buying in Girona no longer leads to residency. Non-EU buyers who want to live in Spain apply for a separate permit instead, most often the non-lucrative visa (proof of income and private health insurance) or the digital nomad visa (remote work for non-Spanish clients). Ask an immigration lawyer which route fits your situation before you buy.
Transfer tax rates as of August 2026. Rates are set per autonomous community and do change. Confirm the current figures with a Spanish lawyer or tax adviser before you budget.
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