All things you need to know about living in Aci Sant'Antonio
Aci Sant'Antonio, in the province of Catania, is home to 5 Americans: 0.03% of its 18,076 residents.
That is the 1461st-highest concentration of Americans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sicilia it ranks 94th.
ISTAT counts 253 residents with a foreign citizenship in Aci Sant'Antonio, 1.40% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Americans (5), Germans (4), Brazilians (2).
That puts Aci Sant'Antonio in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
Aci Sant'Antonio qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Catania scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
It scores in the bottom quarter for nonprofit organizations and PM10 Annual average concentration.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.6°C (87°F) and winters a low of 6.0°C (43°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Aci Sant'Antonio sees about 42 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 718mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 107 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Aci Sant'Antonio population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 87 | 0.48% |
| Albania | 25 | 0.14% |
| Bulgaria | 19 | 0.11% |
| Ukraine | 8 | 0.04% |
| United States | 5 | 0.03% |
| Czechia | 4 | 0.02% |
| Germany | 4 | 0.02% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.02% |
| Slovakia | 3 | 0.02% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 2 | 0.01% |
| France | 2 | 0.01% |
| Malta | 2 | 0.01% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 17,568 | 97.19% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 232 | 1.28% |
| Born outside the EU | 276 | 1.53% |
Americans over time
Quality of life in Catania
Full BES profile for Catania →Catania on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Aci Sant'Antonio qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime. Comfortably below the 30,000-resident ceiling.
Qualifying is about the town. Whether it applies to you depends on criteria no map can check — where you were tax-resident before, and where your income comes from.
How the 7% pensioner regime works, and every qualifying comune →Property prices
About the Catania average of €915/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.3 years of rent here equal the purchase price, close to the national median of 22.2 years.
A ratio between two OMI prices, not a return on investment. It leaves out purchase taxes, IMU, maintenance, financing and the months a place sits empty — all of which push the real figure up. Useful for the question it does answer: whether this town looks expensive to buy relative to what renting in it costs.
A detached house here averages €1,103/m², against €945 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 17% more per square meter.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Aci Sant'Antonio is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Istituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo SPA, about 2.6 km / 4 minutes by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. S. Marta e S. Venera Acireale (DEA level I), about 2.9 km / 4 minutes by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Nearest airport: Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA), about 33 km / 25 minutes by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Despar, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Ferreri s.a.s., about 0.1 km / 1 minute by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Acireale, about 6.5 km / 10 minutes by road from Aci Sant'Antonio (the main town).
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Aci Sant'Antonio, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
Nearby comuni
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