Oviedo is the capital of Asturias, where the province and the autonomous community are one and the same territory. How many people live there depends on which official operation you read. INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion gives 223,576 at 1 January 2025, INE's padron gives 223,968 on the same date, and SADEI, the Asturian statistics office, gives 223,512 in its residente de referencia series and 224,565 six months later. Three operations, one reference date, and no factor converts one into another. We use the Censo anual figure throughout, because the foreign resident counts come from it.
Prices here are asking prices from Idealista's July 2026 report, not what anyone paid. Oviedo's municipal figure sits above the one Idealista publishes for the province of Asturias, so the idea that a northern capital must be cheap does not survive contact with its own region. That province figure also appears on our Gijon page: it is a single observation covering both cities rather than a description of what surrounds either one. Seven of the nine districts Idealista lists carry a price. Corredoria-Huca-Teatinos and Parroquias Norte-Naranco do not.
Two things that are easy to get wrong here. HUCA is Oviedo's reference hospital, under Area II, Centro-suroccidente, and it is not Gijon's. And the AEMET station behind our climate figures sits in the municipality of Oviedo itself.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
A climate station inside the city itself
AEMET's normals come from station 1249I, at 336 metres, covering 1981 to 2010, and its printed municipality is Oviedo itself. We check where a station sits before quoting it, because the name on a station does not settle which municipality it is in.
A reference hospital settled by decree
Asturias replaced its eight health areas with three under Decreto 86/2025, published in the BOPA on 30 June 2025 and reported as in force from early 2026. Oviedo sits in Area II, Centro-suroccidente, with HUCA as its reference hospital.
Asking prices below the 2007 high
Idealista's July 2026 municipal asking figure sits below the highest it has recorded for Oviedo in this series, which it printed in September 2007. That index tracks advertised prices rather than completed sales.
Real range across the priced districts
Centro-Casco Historico carries the highest asking figure of the seven priced districts and La Manjoya-Parroquias Sur the lowest, with San Claudio-Trubia-Las Caldas next lowest. One municipality offers entry points at very different levels per square metre.
Two rail networks and a regional airport
Renfe runs a Cercanias Asturias nucleo covering the city, and the metre gauge network, called Renfe Cercanias AM since 2021, runs services in Asturias. Aeropuerto de Asturias, in the municipality of Castrillon, handled 2,051,342 passengers in 2025.
Two districts listed without a price
Idealista lists nine districts for Oviedo and prices seven of them. Corredoria-Huca-Teatinos and Parroquias Norte-Naranco appear in the selector with no figure, and the barrio tier below the districts is outside our scope for this batch.
Above the province figure, not below it
Oviedo's asking figure sits above the one Idealista publishes for the province of Asturias, so it is not the cheap corner of its own region. That province figure covers Gijon as well and describes neither city on its own.
Rain, fog and modest sunshine in the normals
The 1981 to 2010 normals for the Oviedo station show 960 mm of rain a year, 122.3 days with a millimetre or more of it, 97.6 foggy days and 1756 hours of sunshine. This is not a sun destination.
Population and origin figures need their labels
Three official population counts exist for 1 January 2025. Foreign residents also come two ways, 21,702 by nationality and 36,559 by country of birth, both INE's own published figures at that date. Quoted without its measure, either one misleads.
High speed at the station is unestablished
The Variante de Pajares was inaugurated on 30 November 2023, bringing high speed rail into Asturias. The source naming it names no Asturian station, and we could not establish from Renfe or Adif which stations those trains call at.
Editor's note
What this page leaves out is worth listing. We publish nothing on cost of living, schools, crime, air quality, household size or housing stock, and nothing about buyers as distinct from residents. Every price is an asking price from Idealista's July 2026 report; no transaction or deed based figure appears on this page. Below the district tier we publish nothing at all, and SADEI's parish tier for Asturian councils exists but was not pulled.
Read Oviedo alongside the other northern cities rather than on its own. Gijon is the obvious pair, in the same province, sharing both the province price figure and the airport, though its reference hospital is Cabuenes and we could not establish AEMET normals for it at all, so we cannot tell you how its weather compares with this one. Santander gives you Cantabria's Area I and Valdecilla, with one district price that needs a hedge and a commuter line only partly reopened. Bilbao adds a metro and a tram, and Vigo has AVE service to Madrid. Read Oviedo for the city, and those four for the comparisons one page cannot make on its own.
Updated 2026-09-01
Updated 2026-09-01
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearest of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at about a quarter above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 more slowly than the city as a whole.
Second of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at close to the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at close to the pace of the city as a whole.
Third of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at close to the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at close to the pace of the city as a whole.
Fourth of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at about nine tenths of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 rather faster than the city as a whole.
Fifth of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at about five sixths of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 rather faster than the city as a whole.
Sixth of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at a little over half the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at around half again the pace of the city as a whole.
Cheapest of the seven districts the July 2026 report prices in Oviedo, at under half the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at well under half the city's own pace.
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