Asunción

A sample of listings as of 28 September 2026 for Asunción’s prestigious belt. Villa Morra: a new 68 m² two-room apartment - $900, a new two-room apartment - PYG 6 million, a 55 m² one-room apartment - 3.8 million, a furnished one - $1,000, on R. Bulnes street - 4.8 million. Carmelitas: a 120 m² three-room apartment - 6 million guaraní, furnished options $950 and $1,300. Las Mercedes: a 110 m² three-room apartment - 5.2 million, but another listing in the same area asks 9.45 million. Recoleta: an 80 m² two-room apartment - 4.5 million, a 48 m² one-room apartment - $750, a penthouse - $2,000. The most expensive are furnished apartments in new towers: 7.85 million guaraní in Edificio Emperador, $2,200–2,500 for three-room apartments on Molas López and in The Tower. Cheaper: Sajonia (a 50 m² one-room apartment at 2.8 million, 1.45 million in an old building), Barrio Jara (a two-room apartment at 4.5 million, a studio at 2.5 million), Trinidad (a 75 m² two-room apartment at 2.9 million), Herrera (a one-room apartment at 3.8 million). A separate expense line is gastos comunes: in the Villa Morra towers with a pool, gym and barbecue area (parrilla) they are noticeably higher than in the old buildings of Recoleta, and they differ greatly from building to building, so it is worth asking for the bills before signing. A whole house in Asunción is more expensive: Carmelitas $2,200, the Shopping del Sol area $5,800, Villa Aurelia 9 million guaraní.

A sample of listings as of 28 September 2026. Lambaré: from PYG 1.4 million for a modest apartment and 1.5 million in the San Isidro area up to 4.5–6 million in the Perón zone; a two-room apartment on Bonifacio Ovando - 2 million, a new two-room apartment in Edif. Orquídeas - 4 million, a furnished one near the UCA - 5.5 million; in the Yacht y Golf Club zone they ask $900–2,000. Fernando de la Mora: a one-room apartment 1.6 million, two-room apartments 2.25–3.5 million, new two-room apartments with a maid’s area 3.5–3.6 million, a three-room apartment 4.5 million, a furnished one in Boulevard Plaza Pinedo - 6.5 million. The difference from Villa Morra is about twofold for the same floor area. The non-obvious price of the saving is transport: public transport in Greater Asunción works poorly, so you need a car and a readiness to stand in traffic jams twice a day.

A sample of sale listings as of 28 September 2026. In dollars the market looks like this: Sajonia, a three-room house with a maid’s area - $198k; Herrera for demolition or renovation - $195k, a finished residence in the same place - $420k; Villa Morra on the ground floor - $215k; Los Laureles for renovation - $225k; Mburucuyá - $300–320k; Recoleta near the Campoalto school - $350k; San Cristóbal - $380k; a residence in a gated condominium - $656k. In parallel there is a layer of listings in guaraní, and these are other areas: Barrio Obrero 400 and 890 million, Ciudad Nueva 760 million, Nazareth 850 and 925 million, the historic centre 317 m² - 900 million, Sajonia with 5 bedrooms - 1.05 billion, Barrio Jara - 1.273 billion. At the rate of PYG 5,875 per dollar this is roughly from $68k to $217k. Plots in Asunción cost like houses: 508 m² in Las Mercedes - $275k, 809 m² on Primer Presidente - $345k, 706 m² in Los Laureles with a structure - $330k; outside the city limits it is cheaper, in Lambaré there is a plot for $80k. These are listing asking prices, not transaction prices.

The official minimum food basket (canasta básica de alimentos, also the extreme poverty line) in Paraguay’s urban zone in 2025 cost PYG 412,618 per person per month, or 13,754 guaraní a day. For a family of four this is about 1,650,000 guaraní a month, about $281 at the rate of 28 September 2026. It is important to understand what this figure is: it is the threshold of the physiological minimum in calories, not what a family actually spends in a supermarket. The multiplication by four was done by the atlas - INE publishes the basket per person. The data is annual (2025) and updated by INE using the Central Bank’s consumer price index, so by the end of 2026 the actual cost is higher. The ine.gov.py site did not open on 28 September 2026; the figures were read in an ABC Color publication on the INE director’s presentation.

The official monetary poverty line (canasta básica de consumo, food plus necessary non-food spending) in Paraguay’s urban zone in 2025 is PYG 933,108 per person per month, or 31,104 guaraní a day. For a family of four this is about 3,730,000 guaraní, about $635, and this is the minimum without housing rent. The real budget of a family with children is counted differently: rent for a two- or three-room apartment in Villa Morra or Carmelitas 4.5–6 million, electricity at the ANDE tariff with an air conditioner running constantly, internet 150k, groceries noticeably above the minimum basket, transport or a car - that is from 8–10 million guaraní ($1,400–1,700) a month, and this is still without private school. One mid-level private school adds about 3 million guaraní per child. For calibration: the minimum wage in Paraguay from 1 July 2026 is 3,044,000 guaraní, so rent in a prestigious area eats up two minimum wages. The poverty line is the official INE figure per person; the multiplication by four and the estimate of the full budget were made by the atlas on the basis of the prices collected above. The city comparison field uses the poverty line for a family of four without rent (933,108 guaraní per person, multiplied by 4); the 8–10 million range is our own assembly of a real budget with rent in a decent area.

Until December 2024 the ANDE residential tariff was the same around the clock and depended only on the monthly volume: PYG 403.82 per kilowatt-hour for consumption up to 500 kWh, 420.27 for 501–1,000 and 435.51 above 1,000. From December 2024 an hourly scheme was introduced: at peak load hours, from 12:00 to 16:00 and from 18:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, the tariff in the range up to 500 kWh rose to 669.17 guaraní per kilowatt-hour (by 65.7%), in the 501–1,000 range to 696.42, above 1,000 to 721.68. Off-peak, on the contrary, it is cheaper: 263.88, 274.62 and 284.58 guaraní respectively. For Asunción this hits the family budget directly, because the daytime peak of the tariff coincides with the peak of the heat, when you cannot do without an air conditioner. The figures refer to the scheme in force since December 2024; the ANDE website did not open on 28 September 2026, so the current full tariff sheet could not be checked, and the bill of a specific apartment is better found out from the bills for the last 12 months.

Water and sewerage in Asunción are supplied by the state ESSAP. The tariff for the residential category without subsidy, per the Diario HOY publication of 22 August 2018 on the increase from September 2018: a fixed part of PYG 8,236 a month plus 1,767 per m³ for consumption of 0–15 m³, 2,287 per m³ for 16–40 and 2,667 per m³ above 40. The subsidised residential category (for low-income households): a fixed part of 4,707, then 1,236, 1,958 and 2,154 per m³. Prices exclude VAT, as stated on the ESSAP tariff page. Sewerage is billed as a separate line at 100% of the water amount (a decision of the ERSSAN regulator of 2018, cited by ESSAP itself), so where a house is connected to the sewer the water bill is in effect doubled. An example for typical consumption, 15 m³ a month for a family of four on the unsubsidised tariff: 8,236 + 15 × 1,767 = 34,741 guaraní for water, about $6; with sewerage up to 69k, about $12. This is arithmetic from the tariff, not anyone’s actual bill, and excludes VAT. Confidence is low for two reasons: the tariff was set in 2018, and the rate table on the ESSAP website could not be read (it is an image). On 7 October 2025 ESSAP stated that the price of drinking water was not changed in the review of service tariffs, and in March 2024 the head of ESSAP called the residential tariff of 1,900 guaraní per m³ noticeably behind costs, so a small revision after 2018 cannot be ruled out. Before renting, ask the landlord for the latest ESSAP bills.

The sources found have no network gas for housing: prices and statistics in Paraguay concern cylinder liquefied gas (GLP). After the increase from 4 May 2026 (an estimate by the Capagas bottlers’ chamber: plus PYG 500 per kg and 300 per litre) a 10 kg cylinder costs about 110k, and a 13 kg one about 143k; ABC Color on 11 May 2026 gives a range of 110–125k for 10 kg depending on the brand and delivery distance, that is about $19–21 at a rate of 5,924. The industry chamber had previously held prices unchanged since the first quarter of 2025 and does not rule out new increases. According to INE data cited in the same ABC article, 49.8% of the country’s households cook on gas (57.5% in cities, 31.1% in the countryside), 32.7% on electricity, 4% on charcoal, and 11.3% on firewood (mainly in the countryside). There is no data specifically for Asunción in this source. Petropar, the state company, in its price list gives 7,374 guaraní per kg for the Ñandé Gas brand (about 74k for a 10 kg cylinder), but the page has no date and does not give a retail price of a cylinder of this brand, so it was not used as the basis for the figure. How many cylinders a family uses in a month and how homes in Asunción are heated in winter is not stated in the sources found; for the electricity calculation see the separate fact on the ANDE tariff. A price per cubic metre is not given, because cylinder gas is sold by weight, not by meter.

A review for the 2026 school year: the average monthly fee at Asunción’s best-known schools is about PYG 3 million (roughly $511), which is more than the monthly minimum wage, and growth over last year is about 8%. By school: Liceo Francés Internacional Marcel Pagnol - Maternelle 2,185,000, primary school 2,720,000, Collège 3,140,000, Lycée 3,710,000 guaraní a month, admission fee $2,500. Colegio Goethe (bilingual, with the International Baccalaureate) for 2026: preschool level 3,475,000, grades 1–6 3,695,000, upper levels 4,175,000. St. Annes School: kindergarten 4,072,000, first cycle 4,260,000, admission fee about $4,000 plus an enrolment fee (matrícula) of 800. American School of Asunción charges by the year: $7,750 for Kinder to grade 5, $8,500 for 6–8, $9,500 for 9–12. At the expensive schools the full amount for a school year can exceed $9,500 per student. Two non-monetary caveats: many of these schools require an admissions process and references, which creates waiting lists, and in all, about 150k people study in Paraguay’s private schools, less than 10% of all students in the country - that is, the bulk of children go to state schools, which is where to look with a more modest budget.

Asunción is where complex medicine is concentrated in Paraguay. The private Sanatorio Migone Battilana offers paediatrics, paediatric cardiology, paediatric haematology, child psychology, round-the-clock emergency care, an intensive care unit, its own imaging centre, as well as neurosurgery, oncology, nephrology, infectious diseases, pulmonology and ophthalmology - on the children’s side the set covers almost everything a family needs. The general background, however, is modest: according to the World Bank Paraguay has 1.04 hospital beds per 1,000 people (2022), and this is little by any measure, so you should not count on quick hospital admission in the state system. Prices for private care and prepaga insurance are not published openly in Paraguay, the tariff is calculated individually, so it is more honest for the atlas to leave the amount of family insurance open than to invent one. The website of the ministry of health (mspbs.gov.py) did not open on 28 September 2026, so state statistics for Asunción could not be checked.

In 2025 Paraguay recorded 391 intentional homicides with a population of 6,417,076, which is 6.1 cases per 100k. The rate fell by 18.6% compared with previous years: 7.3 in 2023 and 7.5 in 2024 (477 homicides). According to the InSight Crime year-end review, based on data from the National Police and INE, this is the third-lowest rate in Latin America after Argentina (3.7) and Chile (5.4), with a regional median of about 17.6. There are two caveats, and both are significant. First: the figure is national, there is no breakdown by district of Asunción in the available sources, so the atlas cannot claim that Villa Morra is safer than Sajonia - this needs to be checked on the spot. Second: a low overall level does not cancel organised crime, and InSight Crime separately notes targeted killings of politicians, prison system staff and drug trade figures, as well as the international reach of Paraguayan groups. The National Police website did not open on 28 September 2026; the primary data was checked through a La Nación publication.

A fare on Greater Asunción buses costs PYG 2,300 on ordinary ones and 3,400 on air-conditioned vehicles; without the state subsidy, by official calculations, the fare would be 4,704 and 6,041 guaraní. The subsidy meanwhile is growing like an avalanche: from 20,707 million guaraní in 2015 to 402,980 million in 2025, that is by 1,846% over the decade, and it is paid by taxpayers of the whole country, not just residents of the capital. There are 36 subsidised carriers. The press describes the quality bluntly: worn-out buses and regular “reguladas”, when drivers deliberately throw off the schedule. According to INE, in 2021 public transport in Asunción and the 19 municipalities of the metropolitan area was used by 207 thousand people. For a family the takeaway is practical: housing in Lambaré or Fernando de la Mora is cheaper than in the city, but the saving partly goes on a car and time in traffic jams, because not everyone will stand riding a bus instead of driving.

DINAC data for the Silvio Pettirossi airport station for 2011–2023: the average July temperature is 18.3 degrees, average maximum 24.2, average minimum 13.6. June is slightly cooler on the average (18.0) and on the average minimum (14.0), August is already warmer (20.5 with an average maximum of 27.0). Homes in Asunción usually have no heating, and this is the main catch of winter: in June–July nights can be around zero, and in a concrete house without heating this is noticeable. The station’s absolute minimum is minus 1.2 degrees, recorded on 27 June 2011. Winter is also the fog season: in July there are on average 1.6 days with fog and 2.43 days with haze, in June 5.14 days with fog - for flights this means a risk of delays.

The heat is something a family from the CIS will have to get used to seriously. According to DINAC data for 2011–2023, the average January temperature is 28.1 degrees with an average maximum of 33.8 and an average minimum of 23.1: it does not cool down at night. December 27.3 with a maximum of 32.9, February 27.4 with 33.2, March 25.7 with 31.3. The hot season is long: the average maximum stays above 30 degrees from October to April inclusive. The station’s absolute maximum is 43.0 degrees, recorded on 16 October 2023, so the peak of the heat does not necessarily fall in calendar summer. January is also the most thunderstorm-prone month: on average 21.29 days with a thunderstorm. Practical takeaway: an air conditioner in Asunción is not a luxury but a condition of life, and its consumption should be budgeted together with the ANDE tariff.

The sum of average monthly rainfall at the DINAC station for 2011–2023 gives about 1,433 mm a year - two to three times more than in the checked cities of Patagonia. The distribution is strongly seasonal: November 202.9 mm, March 157.6, February 154.6, April 152.3, December 149.1, January 143.0, October 162.7 - and a drop in winter: June 58.9, July 49.7, August only 24.6 mm. The number of rainy days in summer is 7–8 a month, in August 2.9: the rain comes not as light drizzle but as downpours. The station’s daily maximum is 221.9 mm in 24 hours, on 25 February 2014; downpour flooding of streets in Asunción is therefore commonplace. The annual figure was calculated by adding up the official monthly averages; the DINAC table has no separate annual norm.

Personal Hogar (Núcleo S.A.) sells home fibre with plans from 400 Mbit/s for PYG 150,000 a month - at the rate of 28 September 2026 about $26. The operator stipulates that the stated speed is guaranteed only by cable between the device and the installed router, and connection depends on technical availability at the specific address, so coverage is worth checking for the specific house before signing a rental contract. The plans are intended for home use; resale is prohibited. A comparison for orientation: a month of such fibre costs roughly as much as one day of rent for a two-room apartment in Villa Morra, so internet in Asunción is not something you will have to economise on.