Overall score
Mumbai is most useful for users comparing affordability and economic depth in South Asia against air-quality, flood, and infrastructure modernization needs.
Overall70/100
Affordability78/100
Air quality54/100
Energy66/100
India / South Asia
Mumbai City Intelligence
Mumbai is India's financial capital and one of South Asia's largest urban regions, with deep finance, film, and creative industries and active urban-modernization work. Mumbai is a south asia city of about 21.7M metro in India. On the composite city-intelligence score, Mumbai sits around the indexed median (70/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 21.7M metro
Image credit: Image: iMahesh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall city intelligence
Good70/100
Strong affordability and economic depth balanced against air-quality and flood pressure.
Economic depth
Globally significant
Finance, film, and trade ecosystems shape opportunity.
Affordability profile
Favorable
Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable.
Mumbai data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 70/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 78/100 | Mumbai offers strong affordability for a major South Asian capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life despite housing pressure. |
| Air Quality | 54/100 | Mumbai's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and seasonal meteorology, with active monitoring and policy attention. |
| Energy | 66/100 | Mumbai's energy profile reflects an active national transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption. |
| Safety | 76/100 | Mumbai has solid overall safety with consistent neighborhood experience and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern. |
| Internet Speed | 80/100 | Mumbai has solid fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting deep finance, services, and digital-economy activity. |
| Climate Risk | 56/100 | Mumbai faces meaningful climate exposure from coastal flooding, monsoon rainfall, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale. |
| Resilience | 60/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Safety
Deterministic safety estimates from our index — planning signals derived from country priors and city data, not official crime statistics.
Safety
Overall safety52/100
Low crime52/100
Personal safety54/100
Night safety45/100
Road safety56/100
Mumbai has a moderate safety estimate (52/100); standard urban precautions are advised, particularly after dark.
Quality of Life
A composite quality-of-life estimate and its component indicators.
Quality of Life
Quality of life60/100
Healthcare63/100
Education69/100
Green space40/100
Cleanliness55/100
Infrastructure69/100
Mobility66/100
Mumbai has a moderate quality-of-life estimate (60/100) across our combined indicators.
Family Friendliness
How the city scores for raising a family, with the indicators that drive it.
Family Friendliness
Family friendliness58/100
Education69/100
Green space40/100
Overall safety52/100
Mumbai scores moderate for family living (58/100).
Digital Nomad Suitability
Suitability for remote workers, based on connectivity, mobility, and livability.
Digital Nomad Suitability
Digital nomad suitability68/100
Walkability83/100
Cycling58/100
Infrastructure69/100
Mumbai is high for remote workers (68/100), based on connectivity, affordability and walkability and day-to-day amenities.
Retirement Suitability
Suitability for retirement, weighing healthcare, affordability, climate, and environment.
Retirement Suitability
Retirement suitability62/100
Healthcare63/100
Cleanliness55/100
Outdoor lifestyle26/100
Mumbai is moderate for retirement (62/100), appealing for affordability and a comfortable climate.
Emergency and public safety in Mumbai
Local public safety guidance for Mumbai, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Mumbai, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the India emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Mumbai
Healthcare context for Mumbai, with national-level information from India where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Mumbai, see the India healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Mumbai
Local mobility context for Mumbai, with national-level context from India where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Mumbai, see the India transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Mumbai. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Mumbai
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Mumbai will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Mumbai air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Mumbai modules
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Cost of Living in Mumbai
Mumbai offers strong affordability for a major South Asian capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life despite housing pressure.
Air Quality in Mumbai
Mumbai's air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and seasonal meteorology, with active monitoring and policy attention.
Energy in Mumbai
Mumbai's energy profile reflects an active national transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption.
Safety in Mumbai
Mumbai has solid overall safety with consistent neighborhood experience and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.
Internet Speed in Mumbai
Mumbai has solid fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting deep finance, services, and digital-economy activity.
Climate Risk in Mumbai
Mumbai faces meaningful climate exposure from coastal flooding, monsoon rainfall, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Mumbai
Cost of living estimates for Mumbai — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Climate in Mumbai
Climate profile for Mumbai — Tropical climate, annual average 25.1°C, comfort score 75/100. Month-by-month temperatures, rainfall, sunshine, and the best months to visit. Deterministic planning estimates, not a forecast.
Economy and jobs in Mumbai
Economy and jobs profile for Mumbai — industrial city, economy score 58/100, key industries including manufacturing, automotive, agriculture. Employment, salary, startup, remote-work, and career indicators. Deterministic planning estimates.
Universities and education in Mumbai
Education profile for Mumbai — regional education center, education score 62/100, 7 representative universities, plus research, student life, and international-student indicators. Deterministic dataset, not institutional rankings.
Healthcare and retirement in Mumbai
Healthcare and retirement profile for Mumbai — mixed healthcare profile, healthcare score 57/100, retirement score 64/100. Medical access, specialist and emergency care, affordability, and retirement suitability. Deterministic planning estimates.
Estimate a monthly budget for Mumbai
Estimate a monthly budget for Mumbai using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Mumbai
Plan a trip budget for Mumbai using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Mumbai
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Mumbai. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Pune, India
Same region · about 120 km from Mumbai. Explore Pune's city intelligence profile.
Bangalore, India
Same region · about 844 km from Mumbai. Explore Bangalore's city intelligence profile.
Karachi, Pakistan
Cross-border · about 883 km from Mumbai. Explore Karachi's city intelligence profile.
Chennai, India
Same region · about 1033 km from Mumbai. Explore Chennai's city intelligence profile.
Delhi, India
Same region · about 1148 km from Mumbai. Explore Delhi's city intelligence profile.
Interpretation
Mumbai is most useful for users comparing affordability and economic depth in South Asia against air-quality, flood, and infrastructure modernization needs. Its standout dimensions are internet speed (80/100) and cost of living (78/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (54/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the India country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Mumbai appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- 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.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.