Where to live in San Marino
We track one city in San Marino: San Marino. It averages 12°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,040 a month to live centrally. San Marino sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Italian
- Limited English
- Safety
- 85/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 80/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~90 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Marino | smaller | coastal | 12°C | 860 mm | €3,040 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
San Marino sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Hard to obtain. Long-term residency is realistic mainly for the wealthy, via an elective (investor) residence through property purchase or a locked state-bond deposit, an atypical favorable-tax residence for people with foreign-sourced income, or an atypical residence for well-off private-sector pensioners, with all routes annually quota-capped.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for San Marino:
- Income: about $12k a month (San Marino atypical residence for pensioners (6% pension tax), EUR 120,000/yr gross (EUR 10,000/mo) plus EUR 300,000 in movable assets held in a San Marino bank per Law 64 of 28 Apr 2025; converted at EUR/USD 1.1624; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $581k (San Marino elective residence (residenza elettiva), residential property purchase of at least EUR 500,000 (alternative: EUR 600,000 ten-year locked San Marino state-securities deposit); converted at EUR/USD 1.1624; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 93 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).