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 ranked by the Global Peace Index 2024, low crime, low political violence, strong public services.
• The best cities for solo travelersCoworking density, English-friendliness, nightlife, internet and safety, weighted for solo travelers.
• The best cities for relocating with familyInternational schools, family rent, safety, air quality and healthcare, weighted 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.
• English-friendly cities for digital nomadsCities where you can live, work, and socialize without learning the local language, sorted by EF EPI 2024.
• The happiest cities for digital nomadsCities ranked by our own composite Wellbeing Score, safety, air, weather, English, cost-relief, social density and visa-ease combined. Synthetic, transparent, free.
• The best cities for solo female travelersTen cities ranked by the Asher & Lyric Women's Danger Index 2024, independent travel safety for women.
• 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, derived from the 2024 Open-Meteo climate archive.
• LGBTQ+ friendly cities for digital nomadsCities ranked on the Velasco LGBT+ Policy Index (via Our World in Data), 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 annual mean PM2.5 modelled by Copernicus CAMS, not surveys and not station readings. WHO recommends ≤5 µg/m³.
• Cities with the most coworking spaces, by OSM taggingCities ranked by the count of amenity=coworking_space within ~11 km of city center on OpenStreetMap. Real GPS-tagged venues, not vendor lists.
• 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, per the USGS earthquake catalog.
• Cities with the most wifi cafés mapped on OSMCities ranked by the count of cafés tagged with internet_access=wifi/wlan/yes within ~11 km on OpenStreetMap.
• 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.