All things you need to know about living in Rimini
Rimini, in the province of Rimini, is home to 543 Russians: 0.36% of its 150,333 residents.
That is the 69th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 3rd.
ISTAT counts 19,897 residents with a foreign citizenship in Rimini, 13.24% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (543), Brazilians (198), French nationals (72).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Rimini scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads and life expectancy at birth.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.4°C (85°F) and winters a low of 3.0°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Rimini sees about 30 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 853mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 108 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Rimini at about €2,301 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Rimini population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 3,110 | 2.07% |
| Romania | 3,002 | 2.00% |
| Albania | 2,946 | 1.96% |
| Russia | 543 | 0.36% |
| Brazil | 198 | 0.13% |
| Poland | 186 | 0.12% |
| Bulgaria | 148 | 0.10% |
| France | 72 | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 62 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 61 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 60 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 60 | 0.04% |
| Venezuela | 58 | 0.04% |
| Slovakia | 39 | 0.03% |
| Greece | 36 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 36 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 33 | 0.02% |
| United States | 32 | 0.02% |
| Latvia | 30 | 0.02% |
| Netherlands | 30 | 0.02% |
| Czechia | 29 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 28 | 0.02% |
| Mexico | 21 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 17 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 16 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 16 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 16 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 15 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 12 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 12 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 9 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 7 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 5 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 5 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 5 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 2 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 124,528 | 82.83% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 4,239 | 2.82% |
| Born outside the EU | 21,566 | 14.35% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Rimini
Full BES profile for Rimini →Rimini on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
About the Rimini average of €2,238/m². Averaged across 23 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
21.7 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.
A detached house here averages €2,266/m², against €2,301 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same 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
Rimini 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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Nearest hospital: Casa di Cura Villa Maria, about 1.1 km / 2 minutes by road from Rimini (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Infermi Rimini (DEA level II), about 3.7 km / 6 minutes by road from Rimini (the main town).
Nearest airport: Federico Fellini International Airport (RMI), about 7.2 km / 10 minutes by road from Rimini (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Tigotà, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Rimini (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Cantelli Ruggero, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Rimini (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Rimini, about 0.9 km / 2 minutes by road from Rimini (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 Rimini, 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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