Overall score
Lisbon is most useful for users comparing affordability, climate, and connectivity for remote work or relocation against rising housing pressure.
Overall82/100
Affordability70/100
Air quality82/100
Energy82/100
Portugal / Southern Europe
Lisbon City Intelligence
Lisbon is a coastal European capital known for mild climate, strong creative culture, and a fast-growing remote-work and digital-services sector. Lisbon is a southern europe city of about 2.9M metro in Portugal. On the composite city-intelligence score, Lisbon sits comfortably above the indexed median (82/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 2.9M metro
Overall city intelligence
Strong82/100
Balanced lifestyle, climate, and connectivity profile with rising housing pressure to manage.
Climate
Mild Atlantic
Coastal moderation supports a comfortable year-round profile.
Remote-work activity
Growing
Coworking and digital-services activity continue to expand.
Lisbon data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 82/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 70/100 | Lisbon offers moderate affordability for Western Europe, with central rents climbing as remote-work demand grows. |
| Air Quality | 82/100 | Lisbon performs well on baseline air quality, helped by coastal context, EU monitoring, and limited heavy industry. |
| Energy | 82/100 | Lisbon benefits from strong national renewable build-out led by wind and solar, with active building-efficiency activity. |
| Safety | 86/100 | Lisbon is among the safer European capitals, with low violent-crime context and strong public-life stability. |
| Internet Speed | 88/100 | Lisbon delivers fast fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a vibrant remote-work and digital-services scene. |
| Climate Risk | 72/100 | Lisbon carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing. |
| Resilience | 76/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Lisbon
Lisbon offers moderate affordability for Western Europe, with central rents climbing as remote-work demand grows.
Air Quality in Lisbon
Lisbon performs well on baseline air quality, helped by coastal context, EU monitoring, and limited heavy industry.
Energy in Lisbon
Lisbon benefits from strong national renewable build-out led by wind and solar, with active building-efficiency activity.
Safety in Lisbon
Lisbon is among the safer European capitals, with low violent-crime context and strong public-life stability.
Internet Speed in Lisbon
Lisbon delivers fast fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a vibrant remote-work and digital-services scene.
Climate Risk in Lisbon
Lisbon carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing.
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Interpretation
Lisbon is most useful for users comparing affordability, climate, and connectivity for remote work or relocation against rising housing pressure. Its standout dimensions are internet speed (88/100) and safety (86/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (70/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 5 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Portugal country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Lisbon appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
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Sources
5 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.