Zamora is among the cheapest cities in Spain to live in, up to 20 percent below the national average, according to a study by Kelisto.es which analyzes how much consumers must spend to access the same products and services in the different Spanish provincial capitals.
On the contrary, the cost of living in Barcelona is 35.5 percent higher than the national average, which makes the city the most expensive capital to live in, followed by San Sebastián (+ 29.9% over the average) and Madrid (+ 25.22%).
The analysis carried out by Kelisto.es takes into account data from 50 provincial capitals, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. For each of them, the website has examined figures on 14 products and services from five categories: housing (purchase and rental), taxes (IBI, circulation tax and garbage tax), public and private transport, (price of a single ticket bus and 10-trip voucher, taxis and gasoline), shopping (shopping basket, cost of a loaf of bread and a liter of milk) and leisure (price of a movie ticket and a cane).
To determine which are the most expensive and cheapest localities, the difference with respect to the national average in all variables and for all cities has been calculated. These percentages have been added and divided by the number of variables analyzed in each case.
Thus, the ‘top 10’ of the most expensive cities is headed by Barcelona followed by San Sebastián, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Vitoria, Girona, Albacete, Oviedo and Tarragona.
For its part, the ‘top 10’ of the cheapest cities is headed by Palencia, followed by Melilla, Lugo, Logroño, Teruel, Cáceres, Zamora, Ávila, Soria and León.
The price differences between some capitals and others are very different depending on the product or service being compared. For example, the largest gap is registered with respect to the IBI: between the most expensive city for the payment of this tax (Soria) and the cheapest (Pamplona) there is a distance of 563.2%. On the other hand, the least significant differences are in the price of the shopping basket. The capital with the highest amount (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is 12.5% more expensive than the one with the lowest cost (Seville).
Study results
Regarding housing, to determine what cost it has for the consumer, the report analyzes the average purchase and rental price of a property of 80 square meters in each of the provincial capitals. On average, acquiring a house of this size in Spain costs 144,432 euros. The most expensive prices are those registered in San Sebastián (371,328, 157.1 above the average), Barcelona (357,360 euros, 147.4% more) and Madrid (282,504 euros, 95.6% more). On the other hand, the cheapest cities are Jaén (86,304 euros, 40.2% below the average) and Ávila (91,360 euros, 36.7% less).
In this sense, renting a house of 80 square meters means paying an average monthly payment of 676 euros nationwide. Taking this figure into account, the most expensive capitals in the country are Barcelona (1,278 euros, 89.1% above the average) and Madrid (1,150 euros, 70.1% more), while Lugo (354 euros, a 47.7% less) and Teruel (358 euros, 47.1% less) are the cheapest.
Regarding public and private transport, in relation to public transport the single bus ticket has an average price of 1.2 euros nationwide, while a 10-trip voucher requires an outlay of 7.36 euros on average. The cities with the most expensive single ticket are Barcelona (2.2 euros, 83.33% more than the average) and San Sebastián (1.75 euros, 45.83% more), while the third position is for Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Tarragona, Valencia and Valladolid (all of them with 1.50 euros, 25% more). On the other hand, Lugo (0.64 euros, 46.67% less than the average) and Palencia (0.7 euros, 41.67% less) are the cities with the cheapest prices.
For those who opt for a ten-trip voucher, the cities with the highest prices are Pontevedra (14 euros, 90.22% above the average), Madrid (12.2 euros, 65.76% more) and Barcelona (10.2 euros, 38.59% more), while Palencia (4 euros, 45.65% less) and Lugo (with 4.50 euros, 38.86% less) register the cheapest prices .
Regarding private transport, the race or minimum perception in a day rate in a taxi with a day rate costs, on average, 3.43 euros in Spain, while filling a tank of 50 liters of gasoline represents an expense of 65.22 euros. The capitals with the most expensive taxi rides are San Sebastián (5.33 euros, 55.39% above the average), Girona (4.6 euros, 34.11% more) and Lleida (4.35 euros, 26.82% more), and those with the cheapest rates are Lugo (1.88 euros, 45.19% below the average) and Ourense (2.06 euros, 39.94 % less.
On the other hand, those who have to fill the gas tank will pay the highest prices in Palma de Mallorca (69.40 euros, 6.41% more than the national average), Malaga (68.72 euros, 5.37 % more) and Barcelona (68.70 euros, 5.34% more). On the other hand, they will find the cheapest prices in Melilla (50.26 euros, 22.94% below the average) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (51.78 euros, 20.61% less).
Shopping and leisure
To calculate what the inhabitants of each capital spend when they go to the supermarket, the analysis has considered the global price of the shopping basket (4,480.63 euros a year at the national level) and of other common products, such as a loaf of bread , which costs, on average, 0.83 euros in Spain.
Filling the shopping cart costs (4,770.72 euros, 6.47% above the average) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (4,714.32 euros, 5.22% more) . The third position of the most expensive cities to make the purchase is occupied by Cádiz, Ceuta, Guadalajara, Melilla, Ourense, San Sebastián, Soria, Teruel and Zamora, all of them with a cost of 4,571.52 euros per year, a 2.03 above average. On the other hand, Seville (4,242.12 euros, 5.32% below the average), León and Jaén (both with a cost of 4,290.84 euros, 4.24% below) have the cheapest prices .
By products, Albacete is the city with the most expensive price per liter of milk (2.61 euros, 190% above the average), while Córdoba registers the lowest price (0.69 euros, 23.33% less ). Regarding the loaf of bread, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the city with the most expensive price in the country (1.27 euros, 53.01% more than the average), while Lleida (0.43 euros, a 48.19% less) has the cheapest amounts.
Finally, the report takes into account some common leisure options: for example, buying a movie ticket (which has an average cost of 6.96 euros nationwide) or paying for a beer in a bar in the city center ( with a price of 1.83 euros, on average.
The most expensive capital to enjoy the seventh art is Madrid (9.62 euros per ticket, 38.22 above the average), while Albacete is the cheapest (4.7 euros, 32.47% less)
When it comes to enjoying a beer, Madrid is also the city with the most expensive prices (2.95 euros, 61.2% above the average) and Soria, Cádiz, Burgos and Badajoz, the cheapest (1.25 euros, 31.69% less).
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