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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat or Sant Adrià de Besòs

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How they compare
L'Hospitalet de LlobregatSant Adrià de Besòs
Property tax (IBI) rate0.846%0.598%
Yearly property tax, average home€438€433
To Plaça Catalunya by public transport, centre to centre20 min · Direct by Rodalies (R1)22 min · Direct by metro (L2)
To Barcelona by car17 min15 min
To the airport by car14 min27 min
Walk to the beach104 min23 min
Walk to school2 min4 min
Price per m², Jul 2025–Jun 2026€3,107€3,245
Residents of other nationalities27.3%19.0%
Rent-controlled areaYesYes
Tourist flats per 100 residents0.20.7
To the airport by public transport, centre to centre26 min55 min
Sources and notes
  • Property tax (IBI) rate: Each council's 2026 tax bylaw. Read on 3 November 2026.
  • Yearly property tax, average home: Council rate (2026 tax bylaw) × average cadastral value of the town's homes (Catastro 2026). Read on 3 November 2026.
  • To Plaça Catalunya by public transport, centre to centre: Official public transport timetables, leaving between 7 and 9am, waits included. Read on 11 October 2026.
  • To Barcelona by car: OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), without traffic. Measured on 3 November 2026.
  • To the airport by car: OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), without traffic. Measured on 3 November 2026.
  • Walk to the beach: On foot, with OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Measured on 3 November 2026.
  • Walk to school: On foot, with OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Measured on 3 November 2026.
  • Price per m², Jul 2025–Jun 2026: Generalitat de Catalunya, registered sales of resale homes (Jul 2025–Jun 2026). Read on 3 November 2026.
  • Residents of other nationalities: Idescat, 2025 population census. Read on 3 November 2026.
  • Rent-controlled area: The Catalan government's list of declared towns, with their publication in the BOE (Law 12/2023). Read on 3 November 2026.
  • Tourist flats per 100 residents: Registre de Turisme de Catalunya (data as of 5 October 2026), over the residents in Idescat's 2025 census. Read on 3 November 2026.
  • To the airport by public transport, centre to centre: Official public transport timetables. Read on 11 October 2026.

Average home: the IBI rate × the town's average residential cadastral value (Catastro, 2026). Not shown where a recent cadastral revaluation is being phased in.

What tips the balance
  • From Sant Adrià de Besòs the beach is 23 minutes' walk; from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 104.

Is moving from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to Sant Adrià de Besòs worth it?

Your home today
In the new town you'd like to
Monthly difference

more than today

€75
Hours travelling a year

more than today

+15 h
Minutes each way

more than today

+2 min

What it measures: what you pay each month today, renting in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, minus what you would pay renting in Sant Adrià de Besòs, at the average rent of its contracts, whatever the floor area (your reference home: 60 m², the average sold in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat). These are published averages for each municipality, not your own flat.

Going by public averages, if you moved from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to Sant Adrià de Besòs, you'd pay €75 more a month, and you'd spend 15 more hours a year travelling.

What we assumed (1)
  • Hours a year count 45 weeks of going into the centre: the year minus holidays.
See the full calculation

Sant Adrià de Besòs: €5 less property tax a year on an average home. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat: 2 minutes closer to Barcelona by public transport.

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