City finder
Find the right city for you
Filter 4,444 cities across 105 countries by the dimensions that decide where you can actually live or work. Every filter reads a value already published on that city's own pages — nothing here is a new score.
- Cities
- 4,444
- Countries
- 105
- Data year
- 2025
How this works
What the filters mean, and where they stop.
Filters read published values
Population bands, temperature bands and score bands are plain bucketings of figures already shown on each city’s pages. Each band states its own threshold — “1M – 5M”, “Warm — 18 to 24°C” — so a result never depends on a weighting you cannot see. There is no composite “best match” score and no ranking of one city above another.
Missing data is excluded, not guessed
4,195 cities carry published affordability, safety, air-quality and internet scores. 249 are still awaiting data integration and show Not available instead. Those cities are left out of any filter or sort on a dimension they have no value for, rather than being treated as average — but they remain fully searchable and their climate data is real.
Why there is no cost filter
Monthly budgets and rents are published in each city’s own local currency across 83 currencies, and this platform holds no exchange-rate data. Ranking those figures against each other would compare rials with francs and produce confident nonsense, so affordability is offered only through the unitless affordability score.
Saved cities stay in your browser
Your shortlist and your recently viewed list are stored in this browser only. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and clearing them removes them completely.
Data year 2025. Last updated 2026-05-16. See the methodology and data sources.
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Every city and country also remains reachable through the standard directories.