€1,279per m² to buy, residentialOMI · 2025H2 · comune

298,054residents at the last countISTAT · comune

5.00%hold a foreign citizenshipISTAT · citizenship

1.21%hold one of the 41 citizenships we trackISTAT · citizenship

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All things you need to know about living in Catania

Catania, Sicilia · Population 298,054 · Median age 44 · Indice di vecchiaia 153.8 (2019)

Data as of 2026-10-13· ISTAT

The well-being figures below are for the province, not the town. The rest of this page is comune-level.

Nationality

Catania, in the province of Catania, is home to 150 Russians: 0.05% of its 298,054 residents.

That is the 2266th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.

Within Sicilia it ranks 70th.

ISTAT counts 14,908 residents with a foreign citizenship in Catania, 5.00% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (150), French nationals (88), Brazilians (76).

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 34.2°C (94°F) and winters a low of 6.3°C (43°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.

Catania sees about 87 days a year above 30°C (86°F).

It gets about 565mm 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 Catania at about €1,279 per square meter in the second half of 2025.

At those figures, buying costs about 23.5 years of renting the same property.

Catania population over time

2002–2025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

Nationality	Citizens	Share
Romania	1,962	0.66%
Ukraine	271	0.09%
Poland	235	0.08%
Bulgaria	194	0.07%
Russia	150	0.05%
Albania	94	0.03%
France	88	0.03%
Brazil	76	0.03%
Spain	76	0.03%
Germany	74	0.02%
United States	69	0.02%
Venezuela	50	0.02%
United Kingdom	47	0.02%
Argentina	21	0.01%
Greece	18	0.01%
Portugal	16	0.01%
Hungary	15	0.01%
Switzerland	14	0.00%
Malta	14	0.00%
Czechia	11	0.00%
Slovakia	11	0.00%
Lithuania	10	0.00%
Japan	9	0.00%
Netherlands	9	0.00%
Belgium	8	0.00%
Ireland	8	0.00%
Mexico	8	0.00%
Sweden	8	0.00%
Finland	7	0.00%
Austria	6	0.00%
Latvia	6	0.00%
Canada	5	0.00%
Estonia	4	0.00%
Australia	3	0.00%
Denmark	3	0.00%
Croatia	3	0.00%
Norway	2	0.00%
South Korea	1	0.00%
Cyprus	0	0.00%
Luxembourg	0	0.00%
Slovenia	0	0.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

Group	Residents	Share
Born in Italy	280,325	94.05%
Born elsewhere in the EU	4,111	1.38%
Born outside the EU	13,618	4.57%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Russians over time

Quality of life in Catania

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Quality of services90

Safety45

Landscape and cultural heritage41

Economic well-being24

Environment22

Education and training19

Work and life balance13

Health11

Social relationships7

Full BES profile for Catania →Catania on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Property prices

To buy

€1,279 /m²

To rent

€4.54 /m²/month

Buying in Catania is well above the Catania average of €915/m². Averaged across 24 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

23.5 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.

House or apartment

A detached house here averages €1,594/m², against €1,279 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 27% 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.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. OMI is Agenzia delle Entrate’s official range of market values per m², built from recorded sales and appraisals. Asking prices on listing sites are what sellers hope for, and usually run higher. Source.

Seismic zone

Catania 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.

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Fonte: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, classification updated to 31 May 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Source table. Each Region classifies its own comuni by its own act, so a Region’s change shows up here only after the Department updates its table.

Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance

Nearest hospital: Ospedale Garibaldi - Centro, about 2.6 km / 5 minutes by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest hospital with inpatient beds in the Ministero della Salute's 2023 list. A hospital with beds is not necessarily one with an emergency department. Ministero della Salute (2023); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Garibaldi - Centro, Catania (DEA level II), about 2.6 km / 5 minutes by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest hospital the Ministero della Salute lists in its emergency network (31 December 2025) as DEA level I or II or Pronto Soccorso. A Pronto Soccorso is not the same as a DEA: a DEA is a larger emergency department with more specialties on site. It is not a service guarantee; confirm with the local health authority. Ministero della Salute (emergency network, 2025); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

That hospital is a DEA level II, so it is also the nearest DEA (level I or II). See the nearest DEA for every comune

Nearest airport: Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA), about 5.2 km / 8 minutes by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest of the airports where ENAC recorded at least 4,000 passengers in 2025; this leaves out two airports that carried almost none (Taranto-Grottaglie, Brescia-Montichiari). It says nothing about flights or routes. ENAC (2025); OurAirports; roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Tocal, about 1 km / 2 minutes by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest supermarket as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it. There is no official national list, so a store missing from the map is missing here. Small grocers and corner shops are not counted, so a village with a local alimentari but no supermarket shows a longer time than its real food shopping. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest pharmacy: Antica Farmacia Bellomo SRL, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest pharmacy in the Ministero della Salute's open register (ordinary and branch pharmacies; dispensari with limited hours are left out). It says nothing about opening hours or night and Sunday duty. Ministero della Salute (open register of pharmacies, IODL 2.0); roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Catania Centrale, about 2.8 km / 5 minutes by road from Catania (the main town).

The nearest railway station with passenger service as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it (metro, tram, funicular and heritage lines are left out). RFI publishes no national open list. It does not say how often trains stop there or where they go. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

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 Catania, 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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