Overall score
Madrid is most useful for users comparing cost of living, air quality, energy, and connectivity to understand how the city fits relocation, lifestyle, and planning needs.
Overall83/100
Affordability72/100
Air quality78/100
Energy80/100
Spain / Southern Europe
Madrid City Intelligence
Madrid is a major European capital with a strong cultural identity, extensive public transport, and a growing role in business and remote work. Madrid is a southern europe city of about 6.7M metro in Spain. On the composite city-intelligence score, Madrid sits comfortably above the indexed median (83/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 6.7M metro
Overall city intelligence
Strong83/100
Balanced profile across affordability, services, and energy direction.
Public transit reach
Very high
Dense metro and bus networks support car-light daily life.
Cultural depth
Very high
Museums, gastronomy, and creative industries shape daily life.
Madrid data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 83/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 72/100 | Madrid offers moderate affordability for a major European capital, with central rents rising and transit and food keeping daily costs balanced. |
| Air Quality | 78/100 | Madrid performs well on baseline air quality, supported by EU monitoring, low-emission zones, and ongoing mobility reform. |
| Energy | 80/100 | Madrid benefits from strong national renewable build-out and rising solar and efficiency activity in the building sector. |
| Safety | 84/100 | Madrid is among the safer large European capitals, with low violent-crime context and strong night-time public life. |
| Internet Speed | 88/100 | Madrid offers fast fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting remote work and a growing digital-services sector. |
| Climate Risk | 72/100 | Madrid carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing and city programs. |
| Resilience | 78/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Madrid
Madrid offers moderate affordability for a major European capital, with central rents rising and transit and food keeping daily costs balanced.
Air Quality in Madrid
Madrid performs well on baseline air quality, supported by EU monitoring, low-emission zones, and ongoing mobility reform.
Energy in Madrid
Madrid benefits from strong national renewable build-out and rising solar and efficiency activity in the building sector.
Safety in Madrid
Madrid is among the safer large European capitals, with low violent-crime context and strong night-time public life.
Internet Speed in Madrid
Madrid offers fast fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting remote work and a growing digital-services sector.
Climate Risk in Madrid
Madrid carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing and city programs.
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Interpretation
Madrid is most useful for users comparing cost of living, air quality, energy, and connectivity to understand how the city fits relocation, lifestyle, and planning needs. Its standout dimensions are internet speed (88/100) and safety (84/100). The area most worth watching is climate risk (72/100), 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 Spain country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Madrid 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.