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Tools and Calculators

Explore Global City Intelligence planning tools, including cost of living and travel budget calculators that use your own inputs and link back to city, country, comparison, methodology, and data-source pages.

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
What this is
Directory of planning utilities
What this is not
Official measurements or advice

Available planning tools

Each tool is a planning worksheet that uses your own inputs. None of them publish official rent, hotel, transport, or salary values, and none of them rank cities or destinations. Pair each tool with the platform's city and country profiles for source-attributed context.

Planning tool

Cost of Living Comparison Calculator

Compare monthly living budgets using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.

What it helps with

  • · Bracketing a relocation conversation between two cities
  • · Planning a longer stay against a realistic monthly budget
  • · Stress-testing how a single budget line changes the total

What it does not do

  • · Publish official rent, grocery, transport, or salary values
  • · Rank cities by affordability or cost-of-living index
  • · Provide financial, tax, or relocation advice
Open the cost of living calculatorCities directoryCity comparisons

Planning tool

Travel Budget Calculator

Estimate a trip budget using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.

What it helps with

  • · Bracketing a trip-planning conversation for a destination
  • · Sanity-checking quotes you already have on hand
  • · Stress-testing how trip length or travelers change the total

What it does not do

  • · Query hotel, flight, or booking providers for live prices
  • · Rank destinations by cost or affordability
  • · Provide financial, insurance, medical, or travel advice
Open the travel budget calculatorCountry hubsCities directory

Planning tool

Relocation Checklist

Organize city research, budgeting, documents, housing, healthcare, transport, safety, and first-week planning. Planning checklist only — not legal, immigration, tax, medical, insurance, or financial advice.

What it helps with

  • · Structuring relocation preparation into manageable sections
  • · Pairing planning calculators with destination context
  • · Tracking what to verify with official sources before moving

What it does not do

  • · Provide country-specific visa, residence, or work requirements
  • · Replace official government, medical, or insurance guidance
  • · Provide legal, tax, immigration, medical, insurance, or financial advice
Open the relocation checklistCountry hubsMethodology

How to read the tools

Calculators on this site are worksheets — they sum, scale, and annualise the numbers you enter, and they do not import a third-party cost-of-living or travel-cost index. There are no hidden city multipliers, no synthesized rent or hotel prices, and no exchange-rate conversions. Outputs reflect exactly what you type in, formatted in the currency you choose.

Use the tools to bracket conversations: relocation budgets, shorter trips, stress-testing assumptions. Pair the planning estimates with city and country profiles for source-attributed context across safety, healthcare, transport, and air quality.

Transparency

  • · No external pricing API is called at request time
  • · Tool defaults are zero or empty — never implied prices
  • · City lists come from the platform's local registry
  • · Methodology and data sources are linked from every tool

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