All things you need to know about living in Olbia
Olbia, in the province of Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, is home to 71 Germans: 0.12% of its 61,681 residents.
That is the 935th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 72nd.
ISTAT counts 5,859 residents with a foreign citizenship in Olbia, 9.50% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (71), Brazilians (70), Argentinians (61).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Summers average a high of 30.9°C (88°F) and winters a low of 7.5°C (46°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Olbia sees about 47 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 661mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 90 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Olbia at about €2,398 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 19.9 years of renting the same property.
That is above most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in Olbia rose from 53 to 71.
Olbia population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 2,360 | 3.83% |
| Albania | 320 | 0.52% |
| Poland | 235 | 0.38% |
| Ukraine | 209 | 0.34% |
| Germany | 71 | 0.12% |
| Brazil | 70 | 0.11% |
| Argentina | 61 | 0.10% |
| France | 57 | 0.09% |
| Russia | 53 | 0.09% |
| Hungary | 50 | 0.08% |
| United Kingdom | 43 | 0.07% |
| Spain | 41 | 0.07% |
| Slovakia | 27 | 0.04% |
| Latvia | 20 | 0.03% |
| Belgium | 17 | 0.03% |
| Bulgaria | 15 | 0.02% |
| Switzerland | 15 | 0.02% |
| United States | 13 | 0.02% |
| Czechia | 12 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 12 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 12 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 11 | 0.02% |
| Netherlands | 10 | 0.02% |
| Portugal | 10 | 0.02% |
| Cyprus | 7 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 5 | 0.01% |
| Estonia | 4 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 4 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 4 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 3 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 3 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 2 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 2 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 2 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 54,271 | 87.99% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 3,361 | 5.45% |
| Born outside the EU | 4,049 | 6.56% |
Germans over time
Property prices
Buying in Olbia is above the Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna average of €2,005/m². Averaged across 11 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.9 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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 35% more than ordinary condition — €3,230/m² against €2,398.
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 €3,133/m², against €2,398 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 34% 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
Olbia 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 6.5 km / 7 minutes by road from Terranoa/Olbia (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. Giovanni Paolo II Olbia (DEA level I), about 6.5 km / 7 minutes by road from Terranoa/Olbia (the main town).
Nearest airport: Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB), about 3.9 km / 6 minutes by road from Terranoa/Olbia (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Superpan, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Terranoa/Olbia (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Lanzi San Pantaleo, about 0.1 km / 1 minute by road from Terranoa/Olbia (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Olbia, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Terranoa/Olbia (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 Olbia, 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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