All things you need to know about living in Positano
Positano, in the province of Salerno, is home to 14 Brazilians: 0.38% of its 3,677 residents.
That is the 130th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Campania it ranks 3rd.
ISTAT counts 200 residents with a foreign citizenship in Positano, 5.44% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (14), Britons (12), Russians (6).
Positano qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Salerno scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for intentional homicide rate and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for nonprofit organizations and life expectancy at birth.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.0°C (81°F) and winters a low of 7.3°C (45°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Positano sees about 3 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,231mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 119 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Positano at about €3,681 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Positano population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 63 | 1.71% |
| Brazil | 14 | 0.38% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 0.33% |
| Romania | 11 | 0.30% |
| Poland | 8 | 0.22% |
| Russia | 6 | 0.16% |
| Bulgaria | 5 | 0.14% |
| Argentina | 4 | 0.11% |
| France | 4 | 0.11% |
| United States | 4 | 0.11% |
| Venezuela | 4 | 0.11% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.08% |
| Australia | 2 | 0.05% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.03% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.03% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.03% |
| Denmark | 1 | 0.03% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.03% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.03% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.03% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.03% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0.03% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,356 | 91.27% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 61 | 1.66% |
| Born outside the EU | 260 | 7.07% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Salerno
Full BES profile for Salerno →Salerno on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Positano 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 Positano is far above the Salerno average of €1,213/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
48.7 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.
A detached house here averages €3,925/m², against €3,681 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 12% 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
Positano is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
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. S. Maria della Misericordia, about 18.1 km / 21 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. 'Costa D'Amalfi', Ravello (Pronto Soccorso), about 17.9 km / 20 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P.O. S. Maria della Misericordia, Sorrento (DEA level I), about 18.1 km / 21 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest airport: Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (QSR), about 59.5 km / 50 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari di Cinque Giuseppina, about 1.4 km / 3 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Rizzo di Maria Emanuela e Roberto Rizzo Snc, about 5.9 km / 9 minutes by road from Positano (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Sant'Agnello, about 15.4 km / 17 minutes by road from Positano (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 Positano, 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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