Gijon is a coastal city in the province of Asturias, and it is not the provincial capital. Oviedo is. INE still lists Gijon among its principal cities, so it appears in census tables that otherwise cover capitals only. Its population depends on which operation you read. INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion puts it at 271,259 at 1 January 2025, INE's padron at 269,894 on the same date, and SADEI's residente de referencia series at 271,237. Three official figures, one date, none of them interchangeable.
Prices here are asking prices from Idealista's July 2026 report, not sale prices. Gijon's municipal figure sits above the figure for the province of Asturias, so the line about a cheap northern city does not hold against its own region. That province figure is also the one we show on our Oviedo page. It is one observation covering both cities rather than a description of Gijon's surroundings. Six of the seven districts Idealista lists carry a price; Somio - Cabuenes does not.
Two things to know before you read further. We have not been able to establish AEMET climate normals for Gijon: four fetches across two station codes returned the right station, the right municipality and the full column headers, with no values at all. And Gijon's reference hospital is Cabuenes, not HUCA.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
Population weight without capital city status
INE's Censo Anual de Poblacion counts 271,259 residents at 1 January 2025 and lists Gijon among its principal cities, even though Oviedo, not Gijon, is the provincial capital of Asturias.
A reference hospital settled by decree
Asturias redrew its health map under Decreto 86/2025, reported as in force from early 2026. Gijon sits in Area III, Oriente, with Cabuenes as its reference hospital. The assignment is recent, published and unambiguous.
Asking prices still below the 2008 high
The July 2026 municipal asking figure is below the highest Idealista has recorded for Gijon in this series, which it printed in January 2008. That series tracks asking prices, not completed sales.
Real spread between the priced districts
Centro and Este carry the highest asking figures of the six priced districts, and Oeste and Periurbano the lowest, so one municipality offers entry points at very different levels per square metre.
Two rail gauges and a regional airport
Renfe runs a Cercanias Asturias nucleo covering the city, and the metre gauge network now called Renfe Cercanias AM serves it. Aena puts Aeropuerto de Asturias, in the municipality of Castrillon, at 2,051,342 passengers in 2025, a count of passenger movements rather than tourists.
We could not establish the climate normals
Four AEMET fetches across two station codes and both site locales returned the correct station, the correct municipality and the full column headers, with no values and no explanation. We cannot tell you Gijon's rainfall or sunshine.
District names that tell a buyer little
Five of the seven district names Idealista lists are compass points or positional labels, Centro and Periurbano among them. One figure for Este covers a lot of ground, the barrio tier below it is outside our scope, and Somio - Cabuenes carries no price.
Above the province figure, not below it
Gijon's asking figure sits above the one for the province of Asturias, so it is not a cheap corner of its own region. That province figure covers Oviedo as well and describes neither city on its own.
Population and origin figures need labelling
Three official figures exist for 1 January 2025, from INE's censo, INE's padron and SADEI. The largest foreign born group is Venezuelan while the largest by nationality is Colombian. Unlabelled, either figure misleads.
Rail detail we have not established
No operator published Cercanias line list was obtained for Asturias, and station level high speed service was not established. The Variante de Pajares opened in November 2023, but the source naming it names no Asturian station.
Editor's note
Gijon is a thin page, and it is fair to say why. We have no climate normals for it, its district grid is coarse, with five of the seven names given as compass points or positional labels, and we publish nothing at all here on cost of living, schools, crime, air quality or housing stock. Thin data is not the same as a bad place to live. This is a working Atlantic city with an unambiguous hospital designation and a price grid with real range in it. But if you want more detail, read the other northern cities alongside it. Oviedo, the provincial capital, has an AEMET station inside the city with a published set of normals, and it shares the province price figure and the airport with Gijon. Santander gives you Cantabria's Area I and Valdecilla, though its Cercanias C-3 is only partly reopened and the interruption is not over, and one district price there needs hedging. Bilbao adds a metro and a tram, and Vigo's station, in Redondela, records both more rain and more sunshine than Bilbao's, in Loiu. Read Gijon for the city, and those four for the numbers Gijon does not give you.
Updated 2026-09-01
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearest of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about a quarter above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at well under half the city's own pace.
Second of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about a quarter above 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.
Third of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about seven eighths of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at well over twice the pace of the city as a whole.
Fourth of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about seven eighths of 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.
Fifth of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about three quarters of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 more slowly than the city as a whole.
Cheapest of the six districts the July 2026 report prices in Gijón, at about three quarters of the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 rather faster than the city as a whole.
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