Caracas vs Rosario
In short
Calculated from the figures below, with no overall “who wins” score.
Rent
✓in Rosario cheaper — −83%
Private school
✓in Rosario cheaper — −49%
Ready-made house
✓in Rosario cheaper — −61%
In numbers
Exchange rate as of the date each figure was checked.
House or apartment rent
per monthCaracas$750–4,900$750–4,900✓Rosario≈ $401–550ARS 620–850kcheaper by 83%Private school
per monthCaracas$70–360$70–360✓Rosario≈ $40–180ARS 61,752–277,883cheaper by 49%Winter
averageCaracas13–29 °C13–29 °CRosario11 °C11 °CPrecipitation
per yearCaracas912.8 mm912.8 mmRosario1,055 mm1,055 mmReady-made house
purchaseCaracas$72k – 1.25M$72k – 1.25M✓Rosario$147,250 – 370k$147,250 – 370kcheaper by 61%
By topic
A quick look at each city. Details and sources are on the city page.
Housing
Caracas
An apartment with three or more bedrooms by listings: 750-4900 dollars a month, median about 1600. The east is the most expensive: Campo Alegre, La Castellana, El Rosal.
SpecialistRent-A-House: apartments for rent with three or more bedrooms, Distrito Metropolitano (Caracas), pages 1-3 · checked 6 Oct 2026
An apartment with three or more bedrooms by listings: from 72k to 1.25 million dollars, median about 170k. Most often 80-200k for 76-155 m².
SpecialistRent-A-House: apartments for sale with three or more bedrooms, Distrito Metropolitano (Caracas), pages 1-2 · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
The Cendas food basket for a family of five cost 727.89 dollars a month in July 2026; pro rata for four, about 580. Plus 13.5 for drinking water.
SpecialistEl Diario: Cendas-FVM, family food basket in July 2026 at 727.89 dollars · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
Private schools in Caracas charge 70-360 dollars a month for 2026-2027, plus an enrolment fee of 225-1560 dollars. Payment in bolivars at the BCV rate is accepted.
SpecialistEl Diario: private schools of Greater Caracas, fees for the 2026-2027 school year · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
Nothing yet
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
Caracas
After the earthquakes, Maiquetía airport resumed commercial flights on 1 September 2026, but with limited capacity. To the city, use only a pre-booked taxi.
OfficialUK Foreign Office: Venezuela travel advice, Warnings and insurance (updated 2 September 2026) · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
About 910 mm a year. Dry from January to March (11-15 mm a month); the rainy season runs from May to October, with 80-135 mm a month and 13-19 rainy days.
OfficialWMO World Weather Information Service: climate normals for Caracas · checked 6 Oct 2026
There is no winter as a season. The coolest month is January: about 13 degrees at night, 29 by day. All year round 28-32 degrees by day, 13-18 at night.
OfficialWMO World Weather Information Service: climate normals for Caracas · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
On 24 June 2026 two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 badly damaged La Guaira and parts of Caracas. The risk of further tremors remains.
OfficialUK Foreign Office: Venezuela travel advice, Safety and security · checked 6 Oct 2026
The Russian Foreign Ministry names Catia, Petare, Antímano, La Vega, Caricuao, El Paraíso and 23 de Enero as especially dangerous. Evening walks are risky almost everywhere.
OfficialRussian Foreign Ministry Consular Department: information about Venezuela (transport, crime) · checked 6 Oct 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
Caracas
Median fixed internet speed in Venezuela is 127 Mbit/s, mobile 28 (Speedtest, August 2026). CANTV sells fibre up to 1 Gbit/s. When power goes, so does connectivity.
SpecialistSpeedtest Global Index: Venezuela, median speeds, August 2026 · checked 6 Oct 2026
Rosario
Nothing yet
Services
Caracas
Outages are the main problem: the country is short of up to 4000 MW, and in half of it power is cut for 4-12 hours a day. Tap water is not drunk; drinking water costs 13.5 dollars.
SpecialistCrónica Uno: the 14,000-megawatt gap, Venezuela's electricity deficit, 3 October 2026 · checked 6 Oct 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
