The 20 best-rated places for a second home in Italy — 2026-Q3

#	Municipality	Province	Population	Lifestyle score	Grade
1	Fiumicino	Roma	82,829	76/100	A
2	Cuveglio	Varese	3,368	75/100	A
2	Ladispoli	Roma	40,794	75/100	A
2	Varese	Varese	78,992	75/100	A
2	Luino	Varese	14,125	75/100	A
6	Somma Lombardo	Varese	17,879	74/100	A
6	Castel Volturno	Caserta	30,731	74/100	A
6	Varano Borghi	Varese	2,512	74/100	A
6	Cittiglio	Varese	3,799	74/100	A
10	Induno Olona	Varese	10,421	73/100	A
10	Lamezia Terme	Catanzaro	67,269	73/100	A
10	Olgiate Olona	Varese	12,744	73/100	A
10	Cunardo	Varese	2,882	73/100	A
14	Azzate	Varese	4,689	72/100	A
14	Tiggiano	Lecce	2,835	72/100	A
14	Daverio	Varese	3,024	72/100	A
14	Tremezzina	Como	4,979	72/100	A
14	Ispra	Varese	5,360	72/100	A
14	Bellano	Lecco	3,364	72/100	A
14	Gallarate	Varese	52,902	72/100	A

What this table leaves out, and why

352 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
3,558 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
The ranking is within Italy, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.

Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.

Using it

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Related editions

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