All things you need to know about living in Cianciana
Cianciana, in the province of Agrigento, is home to 31 Britons: 1.03% of its 3,010 residents.
That is the 21st-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sicilia it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 196 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cianciana, 6.51% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (31), Danes (6), French nationals (5).
Cianciana qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Agrigento scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and road mortality in non-urban roads.
It scores in the bottom quarter for nonprofit organizations and average disposable income per capita.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.5°C (89°F) and winters a low of 5.9°C (43°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cianciana sees about 57 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 528mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 83 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Cianciana at about €500 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Cianciana population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 50 | 1.66% |
| United Kingdom | 31 | 1.03% |
| Poland | 18 | 0.60% |
| Denmark | 6 | 0.20% |
| France | 5 | 0.17% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 0.13% |
| United States | 4 | 0.13% |
| Belgium | 3 | 0.10% |
| Russia | 3 | 0.10% |
| Canada | 2 | 0.07% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.07% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.03% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.03% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.03% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.03% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.03% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.03% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 2,621 | 87.08% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 160 | 5.32% |
| Born outside the EU | 229 | 7.61% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Agrigento
Full BES profile for Agrigento →Agrigento on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Cianciana 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 Cianciana is well below the Agrigento average of €650/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
27.8 years of rent here equal the purchase price — 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.
Seismic zone
Cianciana 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: Casa di Salute Ignazio Attardi S.P.a., about 24.3 km / 20 minutes by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. F.Lli Parlapiano - Ribera (Pronto Soccorso), about 19.5 km / 24 minutes by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P.O. S. Giovanni di Dio, Agrigento (DEA level I), about 46.6 km / 40 minutes by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest airport: Falcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO), about 142.8 km / 128 minutes by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Market, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Contissa Maria Rosa, about 5.2 km / 6 minutes by road from Cianciana (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Agrigento Bassa, about 41.8 km / 35 minutes by road from Cianciana (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 Cianciana, 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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