The Gran Canarian palms and Tenerife They are among the 15 Spanish cities with the most expensive shopping cart: specific, the palms of Gran Canaria ranked third in the ranking (tied with other capitals such as San Sebastián, Toledo or Bilbao), with a cost of 445.27 euros per month (3.6% above the average). For his part, Santa Cruz of Tenerife It ranks 15th, with a price of 432.60 euros (+0.70%).
These are some of the conclusions of the index prepared by the savings website Kelisto.es (www.kelisto.es)*, which analyzes how much consumers must spend to access the same products and services in the different Spanish provincial capitals. The analysis takes into account the data from the 50 provincial capitals, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. For each one of them, figures have been examined on 17 products and services from six categories: housing (purchase and rental), taxes (IBI, circulation tax and garbage rate), household bills (home insurance, car, electricity and gas), public and private transport (price of a single bus ticket, taxis and gasoline), shopping (shopping basket, cost of a loaf of bread and a liter of milk) and leisure (price of a movie ticket and a mug of beer). To determine which are the most expensive and cheapest locations, the difference with respect to the national average in all variables and for all cities has been calculated. These percentages have been added and divided by the number of variables analyzed in each case.
In general terms, Santa Cruz de Tenerife is among the cheapest capitals in the country: with a cost of living 5.38% below the average, the capital ranks 15th among the cheapest. For its part, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria occupies an intermediate position in the table: it is ranked 26th in the general ranking, with a cost of living 1.86% below the average.
Despite not being among the most expensive in the country, there are certain expenditure items in which both capitals are among the 10 most expensive: for example, in housing rental (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in position number 6 and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, at 9), the price of a single bus ticket (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 6th place; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 7th) and the cost of a movie ticket (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 3rd; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 4th).
SAN SEBASTIÁN, BARCELONA AND MADRID, THE MOST EXPENSIVE SPANISH CITIES TO LIVE
Globally, San Sebastián (with a cost of living 33.44% higher than the national average), Barcelona (+26.76% above average) and Madrid (+16.18%) They are the most expensive cities to live in, as opposed to Lugo (-17.44% below the average), Palencia (-13.85%) and Zamora (-11.38%).
In addition to the three most expensive cities in the country (San Sebastián, Barcelona and Madrid), another three in the northern half of the peninsula are also part of the top 10 cities with the highest cost of living: Bilbao (9.95% above average), Pamplona (+6.12%) and Santander (+5.66%). To these are added two capitals of the Mediterranean arc (Palma de Mallorca, +15.73%; and Valencia, +6.25%) and two southern capitals with a great tourist pull: Granada (+7.89%) and Málaga (+5.04%).
Among the cheapest is the least populated capital of the country, Teruel, which is the eighth cheapest in the ranking. This same coincidence -being part of the top 10 cheapest cities and the top 10 least populated cities- occurs in other capitals, such as Huesca (seventh cheapest and fourth least populated), Ávila (fifth cheapest and sixth least populated) , Zamora (third cheapest and seventh least populated) and Palencia (second cheapest and ninth least populated) 1.
The price differences between some capitals and others are very different depending on the product or service being compared. For example, the greatest gap is registered with regard to the IBI: between the most expensive city for the payment of this tax (Soria) and the cheapest (Pamplona) there is a distance of 626.10%. On the other hand, the least significant differences occur in the price of electricity (1.79% difference between the most expensive and the cheapest) and the shopping basket: in this case, the capital with the highest amount (Soria) is only 21.73% more expensive than the one with the lowest cost (Badajoz).
