Region · Spain
Living in Asturias
Asturias is Atlantic Spain: winters average 9.1°C and summers stay comparatively mild — 22.9°C highs against a hotter national norm — across roughly 124 rainy days a year. The trade is grey, wet spells rather than reliable sun, but summer water stress runs low (WEI+ 6 vs a national 56). As Spain's south dries out, that green-and-watered profile is a genuine climate-refuge trait. On our six settler profiles, Asturias is worth a look if you're heat-averse settlers (ranks #2 of 17 regions).
Overview
On the wallet: homes run about €1,492/m² (26% below the national average (€2,024/m²)); median net income is about €14,812 per person (4% above the national average (€14,279)).
Public healthcare here means a mean surgical wait around 91 days (12% below the national average (103 days)), with 10.4% of the surgical list waiting over six months — a real, published number, not a brochure claim.
We publish 8 of Asturias's 78 municipalities in depth so far — the ones with a full guide portrait to sit alongside the numbers, weighted toward the milder-summer north. Every figure below is shown against the national reference, gaps included.
Who Asturias is for — and who should look elsewhere
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities, then took the median score of Asturias's towns and ranked it among Spain's 17 comunidades. It answers "how does the typical town here score, versus the typical town elsewhere?"
Good to explore if you're
- Heat-averse settlers #2 of 17 regions
- Families with school-age kids #3 of 17 regions
- couple_starting_family #4 of 17 regions
- Budget-first coastal settlers #5 of 17 regions
- Remote-working couples #6 of 17 regions
Ranked 1–17 by the median national percentile of the region's municipalities for each profile (higher median = better place to explore). Hover a town's own page for the town-level version.
The numbers for Asturias
Region-level data, each figure against the national reference. Where a figure is a comunidad-autónoma reading rather than a town measurement, we say so under the card.
Climate
- Winter average
- 9.1°C #7 of 17 regions · +1.4°C vs national 1.4 °C above the national average (7.8°C)
- Summer high
- 22.9°C #1 of 17 regions · −7.2°C vs national 7.2 °C below the national average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 124 days #17 of 17 regions · +56 days vs national 81% above the national average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- 4.9 h/day #16 of 17 regions · −2.4 h/day vs national 33% below the national average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+)
- 6 #2 of 16 regions · −50 vs national 50 points below the national average (56)
Aggregated from the region's municipalities (AEMET/derived); summer water stress is a river-basin (WEI+) reading.
Schools
- PISA maths
- 495 #2 of 17 regions · +16 vs national 16 points above the national average (479)
- PISA reading
- 497 #2 of 17 regions · +19 vs national 19 points above the national average (478)
- PISA science
- 503 #4 of 17 regions · +14 vs national 14 points above the national average (489)
PISA 2022, reported per comunidad autónoma (INEE). National reference = the mean across the 17 comunidades.
Healthcare
- Surgical wait
- 91 days #7 of 17 regions · −12 days vs national 12% below the national average (103 days)
- Waiting over 6 months
- 10.4% #5 of 17 regions · −6.2 pts vs national 6.2 pts below the national average (16.6%)
- Specialist consult wait
- 103 days #11 of 17 regions · +8 days vs national 8% above the national average (95 days)
Public waiting lists, SISLE-SNS Dic 2025 (2025-12-31), per comunidad autónoma.
Cost & economy
- Median net income / person
- €14,812 #9 of 17 regions · +€533 vs national 4% above the national average (€14,279)
- Median home price
- €1,492/m² #4 of 17 regions · −€532/m² vs national 26% below the national average (€2,024/m²)
Median across the region's municipalities (INE net income; Catastro-derived sale price).
Who lives here
- Born in Spain
- 92.5% 3.8 pts above the national average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.3% 1.5 pts below the national average (3.8%)
Share of residents by place of birth, averaged across the region's municipalities (INE).
Tax posture (2025)
- Wealth tax standard
- Own scale (top ~3.0%) with no general bonificación — a real annual wealth tax above the €700k exemption.
- Inheritance & gifts light
- Spouse/children (Grupo I & II) exempt up to €300,000, then taxed on the excess under the regional scale.
- Buying resale (ITP)
- General transfer tax around 8% — General ~8%; some guides show 8–10% bands by value. Reduced rates for under-35 / habitual.
- Buying new-build
- IVA/IGIC around 10%; AJD around 1.2%.
- Annual property tax (IBI)
- Municipal rates typically 0.4–1.1% of cadastral value — set by each town, not the region.
State ITSGF above ~€3M net worth; wealth tax paid is credited against it. Source: primary source. General posture, not personal tax advice — thresholds, reduced rates and reliefs change and depend on your circumstances. ITP/AJD figures are regional general rates for budgeting, not a quote.
Best towns in Asturias, by what you're after
The same engine as the quiz, run over Asturias's towns and filtered to the ones we profile in depth. Top of each list, in the engine's order — not hand-picked.
Best towns in Asturias for families
schools, coast and cost, scored for remote-working parents
- Cudillero 2 km from the sea · 30 min to a hospital
- Llanes 11 km from the sea · a settled international community
- Cangas de Onís 25 km from the sea · a settled international community
- Villaviciosa 8 km from the sea · 25 min to a hospital
- Gijón 5 km from the sea · a hospital in town
Best towns in Asturias for mild summers
ranked on the July–August average high
- Cudillero 2 km from the sea · mild 22.2°C summer highs
- Cangas de Onís 25 km from the sea · mild 22.8°C summer highs
- Llanes 11 km from the sea · mild 22.8°C summer highs
- Villaviciosa 8 km from the sea · mild 23.1°C summer highs
- Ribadesella 12 km from the sea · mild 22.8°C summer highs
Best-value towns in Asturias
cheap to buy in, but still a real town with services
- Cudillero 2 km from the sea · 30 min to a hospital
- Cangas de Onís a settled international community · 27 min to a hospital
- Villaviciosa 8 km from the sea · 15,386 people
- Llanes a settled international community · 11 km from the sea
- Ribadesella 12 km from the sea · 26 min to a hospital
Town profiles in Asturias
We profile 8 of Asturias's 78 municipalities in depth — numbers plus an honest portrait. More as we cover them.
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See how Asturias's towns rank for you
These are Asturias's regional numbers. Whether it fits you depends on your priorities — winter sun or mild summers, short medical waits, a city or a village, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on what you care about — and we'll flag Asturias as one to watch, so your results surface its best towns for you.
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