🇮🇹 Italy · A realistic 2026 budget for newcomers — rent, food, transport, and what a month actually costs.
Wondering how far your salary goes in Turin? Here’s what everyday life costs, in local prices — the numbers that matter when you’re deciding to move or negotiating a package.
What things cost
One-bed flat, central (Centro, Crocetta, San Salvario)EUR 650–950 / month
Utilities and internet, one personEUR 110–190 / month, higher in winter with gas heating
Groceries, one personEUR 200–320 / month
GTT monthly urban passEUR 38 / month for the Turin urban network
Good to know
Population
≈845,000 in the comune; ≈1.7 million in the built-up area and ≈2.2 million in the metropolitan city
Languages
Italian, with Piedmontese still spoken by older residents outside the city. English is common in the engineering and aerospace sectors and rare in public offices
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Time zone
CET (GMT+1), CEST (GMT+2) with daylight saving from late March to late October
Climate
Humid subtropical in the western Po basin — hot summers, cold foggy winters, and persistent winter air pollution under Alpine inversions
Mountains
Bardonecchia is a little over an hour by direct train; the Via Lattea ski area hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics
History
Italy's first capital, from 1861 to 1865, which is why the ministries' buildings and the grid of arcaded streets are on the scale they are
Arcades
Around 18 kilometres of porticoes along the central streets, much of it continuous
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A note on budgeting
Rent is usually the swing factor — location and whether bills are included move the number most. Build your estimate from the rent band above, add a monthly living figure, and keep a buffer for one-off setup costs (deposits, a residence permit, a local SIM, first-month transport). Globe Quest turns this into a personalized Turin checklist so nothing setup-related catches you off guard.
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