City in Indonesia
Sanur
Sanur is a beachside town on Bali's south-east coast, in Denpasar city. It has an international school that opened in 1986, the Denpasar immigration office is in the same subdistrict, and a 2026 property-agent guide describes a more mature expat community there. [D1] [S2] [I1] [E1] [A1]
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- Bali
- Population
- 29,201 in 2023. The three kelurahan called Sanur (Sanur 9,660, Sanur Kaja 7,829 and Sanur Kauh 11,712) in Denpasar Selatan subdistrict, Denpasar city; registered residents, second half of 2023 (civil-registration data on the Denpasar open-data portal). Not a count of foreign residents.. [D1]
- Weather
- Warm all year [W1]
Why it is here
Why Sanur is on the list.
A city is listed when there is evidence that people move there. This is the evidence.
- Bali Island School (formerly Bali International School) has been in Sanur since September 1986 and teaches the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes. [Sanur S1] [S2]
- The Denpasar immigration office (Kantor Imigrasi Kelas I TPI Denpasar) is on Jalan D.I. Panjaitan in Renon, in the same subdistrict (Denpasar Selatan) as Sanur. [I1] [D1]
- In July 2021 the Bali regional office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights reported 2,412 Japanese nationals on the Denpasar immigration office's books: 1,168 on visit stay permits, 991 on limited stay permits (ITAS) and 253 on permanent permits (ITAP). It counts one nationality, for the whole office area, and is five years old. [M1]
- A February 2026 property-agent guide describes Sanur as calm, with 'a more mature expat community' and a pace that long-term residents prefer; it gives no headcount. [E1]
The Fernshore Index
How it grades, factor by factor.
Each grade is against a published measure, with its source and the date we checked it. It is research information, not advice. Where we have no figure, the row says Unknown.
Cost of living
96 of 100StrongCountry figure
Price level 0.287 of United States prices (2025).
Source: Price level index (GDP), Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
Climate
16 of 100WeakOwn figure
Normals from Ngurah Rai airport, about 13 km south-west of Sanur on the same coast: 3 comfortable months a year (June, July and August); the other nine months have an average daily high above 30 °C or over 150 mm of rain.
Source: Daily maximum temperature 1991–2020, Denpasar Ngurah Rai airport (WMO 97230); Monthly normals, Denpasar/Ngurah Rai (WMO 97230). Checked 15 October 2026.
Safety
47 of 100MixedCountry figure
Global Peace Index 2026: 69th of 163.
Source: Global Peace Index 2026, overall rank. Checked 15 October 2026.
Healthcare
27 of 100WeakCountry figure
WHO UHC service coverage index 67 (2023).
Source: UHC service coverage index (SDG 3.8.1). Checked 15 October 2026.
Schools
UnknownCountry figure
Our research doesn't cover schools yet.
Community
UnknownCountry figure
Not covered by Expat Insider 2026
Lifestyle
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Not covered by Expat Insider 2026
Work and career
50 of 100MixedCountry figure
Mixed: a residence route for remote workers exists (the E33G Remote Worker visa, for employees of a company abroad), but fixed broadband is 4.9 per 100 people (2024), under the 30 line.
Source: E33G Remote Worker Special Residency Visa (Indonesian-language page); Indonesian visa list; Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
Retirement
50 of 100MixedCountry figure
Mixed: the E33E Retiree visa (5 years, up to 10 in total) is for people aged 55 and over, with about US$50,000 deposit and income of about US$3,000 a month; the page names no path to permanent residence. To be safe, have more than US$51,000.
Source: E33E 5-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa; E33F 1-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa (Indonesian-language page). Checked 15 October 2026.
Internet
10 of 100WeakCountry figure
4.92 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people (2024).
Source: Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
English
14 of 100WeakCountry figure
EF EPI 2025 score 471, rank 80 of 123, under the 499 weak line, so the score is 14.
Source: EF English Proficiency Index 2025: Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
Visa, United States passport
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Visa, Canada passport
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Visa, Australia passport
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Visa, New Zealand passport
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The country
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Questions about Sanur.
How big is Sanur?
Sanur is a beachside town on Bali's south-east coast, inside Denpasar city. The three kelurahan that carry its name had 29,201 registered residents in the second half of 2023 (Sanur 9,660, Sanur Kaja 7,829, Sanur Kauh 11,712). That is civil-registration data, not a count of foreign residents.
What do rents look like in Sanur?
Three one-bedroom listings on one agent's monthly rental page on 16 October 2026 asked IDR 25,000,000, 25,000,000 and 30,000,000. The villa at IDR 25,000,000 includes cleaning and internet but not electricity. These are asking prices from one agent, not a town average.
Where is the immigration office for Sanur?
The Denpasar immigration office is on Jalan D.I. Panjaitan No. 3 in Renon, in the same subdistrict (Denpasar Selatan) as Sanur. Its page listing the area it covers returned an error, so its exact area was not read. Check which office handles your permit.
Is there an international school in Sanur?
Bali Island School, formerly Bali International School, has been in Sanur since September 1986. Its site lists the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes. Fees and places are not known here, and other schools in the area were not reviewed.
What is the expat community like in Sanur?
A February 2026 property-agent guide describes Sanur as calm, with a more mature expat community, limited nightlife and a smaller nomad community, and gives no headcount. In July 2021 the Denpasar office had 2,412 Japanese nationals on its books, one nationality only and five years old.
Sources
Where each figure comes from.
Every figure on this page links to the page we read, with the date we checked it.
- [D1] Jumlah penduduk tahun 2023 semester 2 menurut jenis kelamin dan desa/kelurahan, Denpasar city government, Portal Satu Data Denpasar (civil-registration data). Checked 15 October 2026. Second half of 2023, CSV on the dataset page: Denpasar Selatan 183,969, of which Sanur 9,660, Sanur Kaja 7,829, Sanur Kauh 11,712 (total 29,201) and Renon 12,032; Denpasar city 665,328. Sanur is not a statistical unit of its own; the three kelurahan that carry its name are summed.
- [S2] Bali Island School: school history, Bali Island School. Checked 15 October 2026. Opened in September 1986 as Bali International School, 'an international school located in Sanur'; renamed Bali Island School in 2014 under Ministerial Decree 31/2014.
- [I1] Kantor Imigrasi Kelas I TPI Denpasar, Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia (Denpasar Immigration Office). Checked 15 October 2026. Address Jalan D.I. Panjaitan No. 3, Niti Mandala, Renon, Denpasar 80235. The office's work-area page returned an error, so its exact area was not read.
- [E1] Best Bali neighborhoods for digital nomads in 2026, Bali Home Immo (property agent's blog, private, not official). Checked 15 October 2026. Published 11 February 2026. Sanur: 'known for its calm atmosphere and long beachfront path. It has a more mature expat community and is less chaotic than other areas'; 'Limited nightlife', 'Smaller nomad community'. Written by a property agent; no headcount.
- [A1] Sanur, Bali, Wikipedia (secondary). Checked 15 October 2026. Coordinates 8.68333 S, 115.26667 E; described as a beachside village on the south-east side of Bali.
- [W1] Daily maximum temperature 1991–2020, Denpasar Ngurah Rai airport (WMO 97230), BMKG (Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency) observations, distributed by NOAA NCEI in the Global Historical Climatology Network–Daily (station IDM00097230); monthly means computed by Fernshore. Checked 15 October 2026. Ngurah Rai airport (WMO 97230) is the nearest station with a 1991–2020 record: about 13 km south-west of Sanur. Mean of the daily maximum temperature in each month, from 7,358 daily readings made between 1991 and 2020 (about 600 readings per calendar month): January 30.9, February 31.1, March 31.2, April 31.3, May 30.6, June 29.8, July 29.2, August 29.2, September 30.1, October 31.1, November 31.7, December 31.1 °C. The WMO Climate Normals 1991–2020 file that NOAA holds for this station (97230) has no maximum temperature or rainfall, so the normals were computed from the daily record. A secondary copy of the WMO normals on Wikipedia gives 30.0 °C for September, which would make September a fourth comfortable month; the computed 30.1 does not.
- [Sanur S1] Bali Island School, Bali Island School. Checked 15 October 2026. School's own site, read 15 October 2026: lists the Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and IB Diploma Programme; address Jalan Danau Buyan IV No. 15, Sanur, Denpasar.
- [M1] Kemenkumham Bali mencatat ada 4.180 WN Jepang tinggal di Bali, Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia (news item on its site). Checked 15 October 2026. Dated 16 July 2021: 4,180 Japanese nationals in Bali, of whom 2,412 are on the books of the Denpasar immigration office (1,168 ITK, 991 ITAS, 253 ITAP); 1,735 at Ngurah Rai and 33 at Singaraja. Japanese nationals only.
- [C1] Price level index (GDP), Indonesia, World Bank. Checked 15 October 2026. 2025: 28.65 (United States = 100), read from the World Bank API on 15 October 2026.
- [W2] Monthly normals, Denpasar/Ngurah Rai (WMO 97230), Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo Climate Center (World Climate: monthly normals from the station's CLIMAT reports). Checked 15 October 2026. Monthly rainfall normals in mm, January to December: 350.7, 289.8, 231.1, 107.4, 94.7, 67.9, 27.6, 36.4, 59.4, 64.4, 131.2, 327.4. The page does not state the normals period. It is used only for the rainfall test, which June, July and August pass by a wide margin (28 to 68 mm against the 150 mm line); a Wikipedia copy of the 1991–2020 values gives 51, 30 and 16 mm for the same months.
- [Indonesia S1] Global Peace Index 2026, overall rank, Institute for Economics and Peace. Checked 15 October 2026. Indonesia ranks 69th of 163 countries.
- [H1] UHC service coverage index (SDG 3.8.1), World Health Organization. Checked 15 October 2026. Indonesia: 67 out of 100 (2023).
- [K1] E33G Remote Worker Special Residency Visa (Indonesian-language page), Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026. Page read in Indonesian on 15 October 2026 (the English page says 'Data Not Yet Available'). A limited stay visa for working for a foreign company: stay of 1 year, extendable online; no sponsor needed; bank statements for the last 3 months of at least US$2,000; special requirement of bank evidence of salary or income of at least US$60,000 a year and an employment agreement with a company established outside Indonesia. No age minimum and no deposit are stated.
- [K3] Indonesian visa list, Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026. Lists, under Special Residency Visas, E33 (Special Residency Visa, Golden Visa), E33E (5-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa, Golden Visa), E33F (1-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa) and E33G (Remote Worker Special Residency Visa).
- [K2] Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, Indonesia, International Telecommunication Union, via the World Bank. Checked 15 October 2026. 2024: 4.92 per 100 people, read from the World Bank API on 15 October 2026.
- [R1] E33E 5-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa, Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026. For foreign nationals aged 55 or older; stay of 5 or 10 years (extendable online, total stay up to 10 years, convertible to another stay permit); no sponsor; immigration guarantee of a commitment to deposit at least US$50,000 in the applicant's own account at a state-owned bank, held for as long as the permit is valid; evidence of income or an allowance of at least US$3,000 a month; the visa is valid for 90 days from issue. The page names no path to permanent residence.
- [R2] E33F 1-Year Retiree Special Residency Visa (Indonesian-language page), Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026. Page read in Indonesian on 15 October 2026. Stay of 1 year, extendable online; needs a sponsor; evidence of income or an allowance of at least US$3,000 a month. The page shown does not state an age.
- [F1] EF English Proficiency Index 2025: Indonesia, EF Education First (private test-taker index). Checked 15 October 2026. Score 471, rank 80 of 123 countries and regions; the 2026 edition was not yet published on 15 October 2026.