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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Rome, a month

£934 to £1,500 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

RentA 45 square metre flat at the asking rate: EUR 18.53 a square metre in Garbatella and Ostiense to EUR 30.26 in the centro storico. Our arithmetic, not a listing, and not furnished. EUR 830 to 1,360
£699 to £1,150
A deskCoworking monthly desk, from a July 2024 blog, not checked with the operators. EUR 199 to 300
£168 to £253
Weekday lunchesA slice of pizza al taglio, EUR 2 to 4 each, 22 working days
£37 to £74
Getting aroundATAC monthly pass, for the calendar month. EUR 35
£29

Italy's Digital nomad and remote worker visa asks for about £1,900 to £1,970 a month in income. Check your own case

The Rome guideCompare every city

What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.