All things you need to know about living in Budoni
Budoni, in the province of Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, is home to 29 Germans: 0.52% of its 5,577 residents.
That is the 196th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 9th.
ISTAT counts 377 residents with a foreign citizenship in Budoni, 6.76% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (29), French nationals (19), Russians (10).
Budoni qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
Summers average a high of 30.0°C (86°F) and winters a low of 8.3°C (47°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Budoni sees about 32 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 572mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 79 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Budoni at about €1,817 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 31 years of renting the same property.
That is above most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in Budoni rose from 19 to 29.
Budoni population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 103 | 1.85% |
| Germany | 29 | 0.52% |
| Albania | 26 | 0.47% |
| France | 19 | 0.34% |
| Poland | 10 | 0.18% |
| Russia | 10 | 0.18% |
| Ukraine | 8 | 0.14% |
| Netherlands | 5 | 0.09% |
| Brazil | 4 | 0.07% |
| Spain | 4 | 0.07% |
| Argentina | 3 | 0.05% |
| Austria | 2 | 0.04% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.04% |
| Greece | 2 | 0.04% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.04% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.04% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.02% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Denmark | 1 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.02% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.02% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.02% |
| United States | 1 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 4,963 | 88.99% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 286 | 5.13% |
| Born outside the EU | 328 | 5.88% |
Germans over time
Tax regimes
Budoni 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
Buying in Budoni is below the Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna average of €2,005/m². Averaged across 6 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
31 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 20% more than ordinary condition — €2,175/m² against €1,817.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
A detached house here averages €2,005/m², against €1,817 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 16% 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
Budoni is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: P.O. Giovanni Paolo II Olbia, about 32.6 km / 27 minutes by road from Budune/Budoni (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. Giovanni Paolo II Olbia (DEA level I), about 32.6 km / 27 minutes by road from Budune/Budoni (the main town).
Nearest airport: Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB), about 33.3 km / 29 minutes by road from Budune/Budoni (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Vicino a te, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Budune/Budoni (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Garau, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Budune/Budoni (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Enas, about 37.7 km / 30 minutes by road from Budune/Budoni (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 Budoni, 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.
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