Asunción vs Rosario
In short
Calculated from the figures below, with no overall “who wins” score.
Rent
✓in Rosario cheaper — −47%
Family budget
✓in Asunción cheaper — −35%
Private school
✓in Rosario cheaper — −80%
In numbers
Exchange rate as of the date each figure was checked.
House or apartment rent
per monthAsunción≈ $763–1,020₲4.5–6M✓Rosario≈ $401–550ARS 620–850kcheaper by 47%Family budget
per month✓Asunción≈ $633₲3,732,432cheaper by 35%Rosario≈ $974ARS 1,505,487Private school
per monthAsunción≈ $371–723₲2,185k – 4.26M✓Rosario≈ $40–180ARS 61,752–277,883cheaper by 80%Winter
averageAsunción18 °C18 °CRosario11 °C11 °CSummer
averageAsunción28 °C28 °CRosario25 °C25 °CPrecipitation
per yearAsunción1,433 mm1,433 mmRosario1,055 mm1,055 mmReady-made house
purchaseAsunción$195–420k$195–420k✓Rosario$147,250 – 370k$147,250 – 370kcheaper by 16%
By topic
A quick look at each city. Details and sources are on the city page.
Housing
Asunción
A 2–3 bedroom apartment in Villa Morra, Carmelitas or Recoleta is PYG 4.5–6 million a month, that is $770–1,020. Utilities on top.
SpecialistClasipar: apartments, houses and plots in Asunción, Lambaré and Fernando de la Mora · checked 28 Sep 2026
A house in Asunción is most often $195–420k, with the middle around $300k. In guaraní, in cheaper areas the same houses go for PYG 400–900 million, that is $68–153k.
SpecialistClasipar: apartments, houses and plots in Asunción, Lambaré and Fernando de la Mora · checked 28 Sep 2026
Lambaré and Fernando de la Mora are half the price of the city: a two-room apartment is PYG 2.5–4.5 million, that is $425–770. The price for this is the rush-hour drive.
SpecialistClasipar: apartments, houses and plots in Asunción, Lambaré and Fernando de la Mora · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
A two-bedroom apartment is most often 620–850k pesos a month, median 750k (about 490 dollars). In Puerto Norte asking prices reach 1.8 million. Building fees on top.
SpecialistMercado Libre: two-bedroom apartments for rent, Rosario · checked 6 Oct 2026
A three-bedroom house by listings is most often 147–370k dollars, median about 260k. Sellers quote prices in dollars.
SpecialistMercado Libre: three-bedroom houses for sale, Rosario · checked 6 Oct 2026
Money and prices
Asunción
The minimum food basket in the city is PYG 412,618 per person a month, for a family of four about 1.65 million, that is about $280.
SpecialistABC Color: INE data on monetary poverty for 2025, cost of baskets · checked 28 Sep 2026
The poverty line is PYG 933,108 per person, for a family of four 3.73 million without housing. With rent in a decent area, from 8–10 million.
SpecialistABC Color: INE data on monetary poverty for 2025, cost of baskets · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
The minimum food basket for a family of four in the Pampas region (INDEC) is about 678k pesos a month, June 2026. There is no separate figure for Rosario.
OfficialIPEC Santa Fe, INDEC series: basic food basket (extreme poverty line) per adult equivalent, Pampas region, 2017 to June 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026
The poverty line for a family of four in the Pampas region is 1.51 million pesos a month (June 2026), without rent. With a rented two-bedroom: 2.1–2.4 million.
OfficialIPEC Santa Fe, INDEC series: total basic basket (poverty line) per adult equivalent, Pampas region, 2017 to June 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026
Family and kids
Asunción
Monthly fees at the well-known schools average PYG 3 million, above the minimum wage. For specific schools, from 2.19 to 4.26 million.
SpecialistEl Nacional: monthly fees at private schools in Asunción for the 2026 school year · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
Fee caps at state-subsidised private schools as of October 2025: 62–278k pesos a month. Only 6% of schools have no cap, mostly in Rosario.
SpecialistLa Capital: in Santa Fe only a handful of private schools have no fee cap · checked 6 Oct 2026
Healthcare
Asunción
Asunción has private sanatoriums with paediatric cardiology, paediatric haematology, intensive care and their own diagnostics. Nationally beds are few: 1.04 per thousand people.
SpecialistSanatorio Migone Battilana: list of specialties · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
Foreigners without residence must pay in national hospitals. In July 2026 a bill was filed in Santa Fe to charge them in provincial ones too; emergency care stays free.
SpecialistLa Voz de San Justo: national hospitals charge foreigners without residence · checked 6 Oct 2026
Transport
Asunción
A bus fare is PYG 2,300, with air conditioning 3,400 - about 40 and 58 cents. It is cheap because of the subsidy, but the quality is such that almost everyone in Asunción gets a car.
SpecialistABC Color: public transport fares in Greater Asunción and the size of the subsidy · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
In 2025 Rosario had flights to Panama, Rio, Lima and Florianópolis, and at home to Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Iguazú, Mendoza and Salta. Buenos Aires is 300 km away.
OfficialArgentina's Ministry of Tourism, “Conectividad Aérea”: main air routes by year (flights and passengers) · checked 6 Oct 2026
Climate
Asunción
The average July temperature is 18.3 degrees, with an average daytime high of 24.2. There is no winter in the usual sense, but the station’s absolute minimum went down to minus 1.2.
OfficialDINAC: climatological table of Silvio Pettirossi airport, 2011-2023 data · checked 28 Sep 2026
The average January maximum is 33.8 degrees, December and February about 33. The station’s absolute maximum is 43 degrees, and it fell in October, not at the height of summer.
OfficialDINAC: climatological table of Silvio Pettirossi airport, 2011-2023 data · checked 28 Sep 2026
About 1,433 mm a year: a wet summer and a dry winter. The wettest month is November (203 mm), the driest August (25 mm), and 222 mm has fallen in a day.
OfficialDINAC: climatological table of Silvio Pettirossi airport, 2011-2023 data · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
January averages 24.8 degrees, about 31 by day and 19 at night. From September to February there are heat waves up to 38–40, the record is 40.5 in January 2006.
SpecialistClimates to Travel: climate of Rosario, normals 1991–2020 · checked 6 Oct 2026
About 1,055 mm a year. Rainy from October to April (108–138 mm a month), often in thunderstorms; driest in June–August (23–35 mm).
SpecialistClimates to Travel: climate of Rosario, normals 1991–2020 · checked 6 Oct 2026
The average July temperature is 10.7 degrees: 16.5 by day and about 5 at night. On cold nights down to -3.5, snow almost never falls. Winter is humid, about 75–79%.
SpecialistClimates to Travel: climate of Rosario, normals 1991–2020 · checked 6 Oct 2026
Safety
Asunción
Nationally in 2025 there were 6.1 homicides per 100k people - the third-best figure in Latin America. No separate statistics by district of Asunción could be found.
SpecialistLa Nación: Paraguay among the three countries in the region with the lowest homicide rate in 2025 · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
Rosario department, January–June 2026: 47 homicide victims, the fewest since 2014 and 32% fewer than a year earlier. Province-wide in 2025: 5.6 per 100k.
OfficialSanta Fe Public Security Observatory: homicides in the province, January–June 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026
Internet and phone
Asunción
Fibre to the home: Personal Hogar plans start from 400 Mbit/s for PYG 150k a month, about $26. For remote work the conditions are good.
SpecialistPersonal Hogar: home fiber rates · checked 28 Sep 2026
Rosario
Nothing yet
Services
Asunción
Since December 2024 the ANDE tariff depends on the hour: at peak, 12 to 16 and 18 to 22, a kilowatt-hour costs PYG 669 instead of the previous 404; off-peak, 264.
SpecialistABC Color: new ANDE tariff scheme, peak-hour rates 65% higher · checked 28 Sep 2026
Cooking is done on cylinder gas: a 10 kg cylinder costs PYG 110–125k ($19–21). About half of homes cook on gas, a third on electricity.
SpecialistLa Nación: gas price to rise by an average of 500 guaraníes per kg, the 10 kg cylinder to go up to 110,000 · checked 29 Sep 2026
ESSAP water: a fixed charge of PYG 8,236 and 1,767 per m³ up to 15 m³. A bill for 15 m³ is about 35k ($6), and sewerage adds the same again. The tariff dates from 2018.
SpecialistDiario HOY: ESSAP tariff rises from September, table of old and new prices by category · checked 29 Sep 2026
Rosario
EPE electricity without subsidy from 1 September 2026: 245 to 431 pesos per kWh by step plus 3.8k a month. 300 kWh is about 96k pesos before taxes (63 dollars).
OfficialEPE Santa Fe: full residential tariff schedule, consumption from 1 September 2026 (PDF “Cuadro Tarifario Septiembre 2026” in the “Usuarios” section) · checked 6 Oct 2026
Litoral Gas in Rosario without subsidy: 324.5 pesos per m³ plus a fixed charge from 3.6k (R1), before taxes. 100 m³ in winter is about 36k pesos (24 dollars).
OfficialENReGE (formerly ENARGAS): natural gas tariffs of all distributors from 1 September 2026 (Excel), Litoral Gas, Santa Fe province · checked 6 Oct 2026

