rankings

Every best cities list.

Each ranking is built from the same verified open data that powers every city page. No opinions, no sponsored placements, sources listed on every page.

• The cheapest cities for digital nomadsTen cities where a solo digital nomad lives comfortably for under $2,000 a month. Cost-of-living, rent, internet and visa data, open sources only.
• Cities with the fastest internet for remote workTen cities ranked by typical residential fiber speed, for nomads who upload, stream, or run video calls all day.
• The safest cities for digital nomadsTen cities with strong country-level safety, low political violence and reliable public services.
• The best cities for solo travelersCities that work especially well for solo travelers.
• The best cities for relocating with familyCities that work especially well for families with children.
• Countries with the cheapest international schoolsCountries ranked by national-average annual international primary tuition, cheapest first. A green dot flags countries where the figure is anchored to named schools in at least one city we cover; amber marks a pure national-average baseline.
• The best Asian cities for digital nomadsBangkok to Tokyo, Bali to Singapore, Asia's top nomad destinations ranked by composite score.
• The best European cities for digital nomadsLisbon to Tallinn, Berlin to Vienna, Europe's top nomad cities ranked by composite score.
• The best Latin American cities for digital nomadsMexico City to Buenos Aires, Medellin to São Paulo, Latin America's top nomad cities ranked.
• The happiest cities for digital nomadsCities ranked by our own composite Wellbeing Score, safety, air, weather, cost-relief, social density and visa-ease combined. Synthetic, transparent, free.
• The best cities for solo female travelersTen cities ranked by a country-level women's-safety indicator for independent travel.
• Best cities for remote work with EU clientsCities ranked by hours of working-day overlap with Berlin 09–17, for nomads serving European clients or teams.
• The sunniest cities for digital nomadsCities ranked by total annual sunshine hours.
• LGBTQ+ friendly cities for digital nomadsCities ranked on a country-level measure of legal rights and protections for LGBT+ people.
• Cheapest European cities for digital nomadsEurope's most affordable digital nomad destinations, ranked by monthly solo cost.
• Cheapest Asian cities for digital nomadsAsia's most affordable digital nomad destinations, ranked by monthly solo cost.
• Cities with dedicated digital nomad visasCities in countries that run a formal digital nomad visa programme, income requirements, application fees and stay length.
• Cities with the cleanest air, ranked by verified PM2.5Cities ranked by modelled annual mean PM2.5, not surveys and not individual station readings. WHO recommends ≤5 µg/m³.
• Cities with the most coworking spaces, by OSM taggingCities ranked by mapped coworking-space density near the city center.
• Cities outside the tropical-cyclone beltCities where no named tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 200 km since 1980, according to NOAA's IBTrACS public-domain dataset.
• Seismically safest cities for long-term movesCities where no earthquake of magnitude 5 or larger has been recorded within 200 km in the last 50 years.
• Cities with the most wifi cafés mapped on OSMCities ranked by mapped café-with-wifi density near the city center.
• Cities with zero or very low personal income taxCities in jurisdictions with no personal income tax or top marginal rates under 20%, verified against country tax authority sites for May 2026.
• Cities with territorial tax systemsCities in jurisdictions that tax only locally-sourced income, leaving your foreign remote-work earnings outside the local tax net. Verified May 2026.
• Cities with dedicated nomad / expat tax regimesCities in jurisdictions with formal incentive programs for remote workers and new arrivals: Spain Beckham, Portugal IFICI, Italy Impatriati, UK FIG, US FEIE, Japan non-permanent resident, Cyprus non-dom.
• Cheap and safe, the cities that deliver bothTen cities that combine a solo cost of living under roughly $900 a month with a strong country-level safety score.
• Warm in winter, fast enough to workTen cities averaging 18°C or warmer across December to February, with at least 50 Mbps internet and a mid-table or better safety score, ranked by monthly cost.
• Under $1,000, over 100 MbpsTen cities with at least 100 Mbps typical residential internet, ranked by solo monthly cost. For nomads whose work punishes a weak connection.
• The best small cities, under 300,000 peopleTen cities under 300,000 population ranked by overall nomad score. For people who want infrastructure without the megacity.