Europe: Quality of Life Index by City 2026

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The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands 230.1 153.3 80.0 84.0 72.3 6.0 20.1 17.6 90.6
Utrecht, Netherlands 221.6 149.1 79.0 85.6 77.3 7.1 21.7 22.7 87.2
Eindhoven, Netherlands 219.4 144.6 79.1 80.2 71.7 7.0 22.6 19.6 85.4
Groningen, Netherlands 216.1 130.5 78.4 80.8 68.7 7.3 19.1 17.6 83.5
Rotterdam, Netherlands 213.1 130.9 74.0 84.3 74.6 6.5 21.0 22.2 87.9
Luxembourg, Luxembourg 210.1 153.3 72.1 75.0 80.8 10.2 25.9 20.4 82.6
Vienna, Austria 209.7 137.4 71.6 81.8 73.9 12.6 21.5 15.6 81.8
Amsterdam, Netherlands 209.4 135.6 74.3 81.5 82.6 9.3 22.1 22.6 87.5
Gent, Belgium 208.7 127.1 76.2 83.0 73.2 6.5 25.2 24.9 88.7
Nuremberg, Germany 208.2 151.3 70.0 72.7 69.0 7.7 25.9 22.1 77.5
Copenhagen, Denmark 207.1 141.9 74.3 78.0 85.7 8.9 26.9 22.5 83.7
Munich, Germany 206.4 148.2 78.9 79.5 76.1 11.9 28.4 23.7 76.0
Valencia, Spain 206.3 118.0 65.3 81.7 50.3 8.4 19.7 21.3 93.8
Gothenburg, Sweden 205.9 159.0 54.2 69.9 68.7 6.8 23.8 19.5 77.5
Basel, Switzerland 205.2 189.5 68.6 69.3 112.4 9.6 36.9 31.4 82.8
Bergen, Norway 204.4 130.2 76.2 75.3 85.6 7.3 26.2 19.8 78.8
Frankfurt, Germany 204.3 161.9 55.5 78.2 74.0 7.2 23.5 32.0 84.7
Stavanger, Norway 204.1 139.1 74.9 71.8 82.7 6.2 32.3 20.6 80.0
Bern, Switzerland 204.0 179.8 74.1 70.2 110.0 10.5 39.8 25.3 76.0
Plzen, Czech Republic 202.9 117.3 75.5 81.6 50.8 9.7 21.6 23.9 81.4
Stuttgart, Germany 202.8 148.6 70.0 80.2 71.5 7.6 25.9 34.5 81.1
Dusseldorf, Germany 202.8 148.1 67.3 73.4 73.9 9.2 26.2 27.8 86.4
Helsinki, Finland 202.5 127.1 74.6 80.3 74.3 10.7 24.5 12.5 62.8
Zurich, Switzerland 202.3 170.8 76.6 70.6 118.5 13.1 36.9 24.5 81.5
Geneva, Switzerland 200.4 164.4 70.6 72.6 116.5 13.0 32.6 24.4 82.6
Trondheim, Norway 200.0 131.0 78.9 75.8 84.9 6.6 31.0 20.7 66.7
Lausanne, Switzerland 198.6 169.2 71.9 70.9 111.5 12.1 33.3 26.9 73.3
Hamburg, Germany 197.6 146.9 60.3 76.4 71.9 9.2 30.5 26.7 82.8
Edinburgh, United Kingdom 197.2 122.8 69.6 77.7 73.0 8.2 26.3 25.9 84.0
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 196.8 152.8 60.6 77.2 67.7 7.8 33.1 34.5 85.7
Liverpool, United Kingdom 196.5 131.0 51.5 80.7 66.1 5.1 27.8 28.0 90.9
Reykjavik, Iceland 195.6 112.8 76.0 70.0 98.9 8.0 20.5 15.4 68.8
Villach, Austria 191.8 122.2 71.7 69.0 65.9 7.6 16.5 35.1 75.9
Glasgow, United Kingdom 189.7 129.0 54.8 78.9 67.8 5.3 29.2 33.7 84.8
Graz, Austria 187.4 127.3 72.8 77.1 71.3 7.8 29.3 38.7 73.9
Cork, Ireland 184.4 121.2 62.8 55.5 72.2 5.9 34.1 26.1 89.8
Tallinn, Estonia 184.1 90.2 78.3 73.8 64.8 11.2 24.4 18.4 64.3
Belfast, United Kingdom 182.8 116.7 52.0 70.7 65.9 5.5 37.6 26.5 90.8
Rijeka, Croatia 182.6 81.3 76.5 67.2 53.6 12.9 17.5 29.6 94.9
Madrid, Spain 181.5 108.1 71.3 79.9 60.0 12.7 27.9 37.7 85.5
Vilnius, Lithuania 180.5 99.0 69.9 76.5 53.0 13.0 25.8 23.5 66.6
Oslo, Norway 180.4 114.2 65.6 77.7 90.2 11.6 27.8 21.9 60.0
Toulouse, France 179.0 121.9 50.2 79.4 69.1 8.3 32.3 39.0 91.9
Malaga, Spain 178.6 87.3 69.0 70.8 51.4 11.1 25.2 33.9 97.0
Cologne, Germany 177.9 134.8 55.3 72.0 71.4 9.0 36.7 39.5 84.8
Zagreb, Croatia 177.6 101.1 78.6 64.9 53.7 11.7 29.7 35.4 82.2
Leeds, United Kingdom 177.5 120.2 54.9 79.1 68.4 6.0 29.8 45.1 84.6
Porto, Portugal 177.2 71.6 66.6 78.8 49.3 14.8 24.8 24.5 96.6
Ljubljana, Slovenia 177.1 87.9 78.2 66.6 57.4 14.7 26.3 23.3 76.1
Cambridge, United Kingdom 176.9 128.9 60.7 71.6 73.9 9.8 39.5 40.9 91.4
Split, Croatia 174.9 76.5 69.9 68.4 58.6 17.4 16.9 27.6 96.3
Stockholm, Sweden 174.6 120.7 53.5 65.7 78.6 13.0 34.1 18.0 69.7
Berlin, Germany 174.5 130.5 55.5 66.5 70.0 10.6 33.3 38.4 83.3
Kaunas, Lithuania 173.3 85.8 63.4 74.7 52.7 10.4 26.0 25.3 68.9
Brno, Czech Republic 172.4 96.2 75.4 76.1 53.2 14.9 26.3 40.3 78.2
Bristol, United Kingdom 170.9 118.2 57.0 73.2 71.1 8.9 31.1 48.1 88.5
Prague, Czech Republic 170.4 97.7 75.2 74.8 59.6 18.9 31.8 33.5 80.7
Timisoara, Romania 168.1 92.9 74.6 71.4 41.3 9.0 24.7 55.3 82.0
Antwerp, Belgium 167.8 122.2 60.1 79.8 71.6 6.1 38.8 58.2 85.4
Trieste, Italy 166.7 86.8 72.4 64.5 61.8 8.6 28.8 47.6 92.6
Birmingham, United Kingdom 164.0 128.4 36.2 71.2 68.6 7.2 33.3 48.6 87.7
Lyon, France 163.9 129.2 40.7 76.1 72.2 8.5 35.8 51.7 88.5
Cluj-Napoca, Romania 162.9 86.0 77.6 66.6 44.6 13.7 29.6 43.1 74.3
Genoa, Italy 160.6 93.9 55.0 66.5 62.3 6.2 33.7 50.3 95.0
Riga, Latvia 160.3 84.0 62.5 60.9 54.9 8.4 30.3 37.1 74.7
Brussels, Belgium 159.1 132.1 44.6 73.6 73.5 6.0 36.8 62.5 83.8
Manchester, United Kingdom 158.8 118.5 44.1 74.5 70.0 7.3 39.0 53.3 86.9
Poznan, Poland 158.6 108.4 72.3 57.0 46.6 8.8 31.6 60.3 77.4
Kaliningrad, Russia 158.3 62.5 70.0 69.9 36.5 12.3 29.2 35.4 73.7
Bratislava, Slovakia 157.9 84.6 69.5 55.7 54.5 14.8 30.2 36.8 80.7
Plovdiv, Bulgaria 156.3 81.1 74.5 59.5 40.1 8.8 26.6 58.0 82.6
Dublin, Ireland 155.8 119.9 45.8 51.3 76.7 8.7 40.3 41.6 85.9
Lisbon, Portugal 153.6 63.6 67.4 72.4 54.2 19.7 34.6 37.4 98.6
Gdansk, Poland 152.5 100.1 68.7 50.5 49.7 12.6 30.6 51.6 75.5
Warsaw, Poland 151.3 102.5 74.6 58.4 53.5 12.7 34.8 59.7 74.6
Lodz, Poland 151.2 100.5 62.3 58.6 47.3 8.5 35.6 57.4 77.0
Barcelona, Spain 151.0 98.8 48.1 76.7 59.2 12.2 30.0 63.0 95.7
Wroclaw, Poland 149.7 95.7 74.7 57.5 49.4 11.7 34.8 61.6 78.4
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 149.3 60.3 72.2 73.9 36.1 15.6 27.1 34.4 45.5
Krakow (Cracow), Poland 148.5 106.1 75.2 58.2 49.5 12.3 31.2 69.8 73.9
Rome, Italy 147.6 87.4 52.7 65.0 63.4 14.3 35.3 48.8 93.7
Varna, Bulgaria 147.1 74.1 65.6 64.0 45.5 10.9 28.7 59.4 85.1
Bologna, Italy 145.4 86.8 51.3 76.1 68.3 10.5 32.5 61.8 88.1
Turin, Italy 144.5 97.6 48.1 65.5 60.1 8.2 27.8 67.8 85.7
Paris, France 143.6 122.3 42.0 77.0 78.6 15.9 41.2 63.4 88.4
Sofia, Bulgaria 143.6 98.8 61.2 58.6 46.2 10.2 30.5 67.9 76.0
London, United Kingdom 143.4 123.1 44.4 69.5 87.5 15.4 44.8 58.1 88.3
Budapest, Hungary 141.0 87.4 66.1 52.2 51.1 14.3 38.8 52.9 78.4
Iasi, Romania 139.5 77.4 66.1 56.3 40.5 10.8 33.6 59.7 73.0
Novi Sad, Serbia 139.1 64.5 61.4 50.2 45.0 15.8 18.0 54.3 84.0
Minsk, Belarus 138.0 72.5 50.1 50.2 32.0 10.4 31.4 42.5 64.4
Banja Luka, Bosnia And Herzegovina 136.1 63.0 64.6 46.1 42.6 14.5 22.4 56.1 82.8
Lviv, Ukraine 135.8 55.4 62.8 61.4 29.5 14.1 31.7 48.9 69.6
Thessaloniki, Greece 132.6 64.1 48.0 58.4 53.4 13.9 28.1 54.7 88.4
Bucharest, Romania 132.0 87.6 71.5 55.3 46.3 10.7 41.0 75.4 75.6
Milan, Italy 129.4 86.6 46.5 70.3 73.1 15.4 36.1 67.9 88.1
Athens, Greece 129.2 67.7 44.8 58.5 57.9 14.3 37.2 55.2 95.2
Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina 128.4 67.8 55.5 59.1 42.8 14.4 26.9 66.2 78.2
Kazan, Russia 125.7 64.8 70.0 68.7 36.9 17.1 34.8 56.7 39.6
Chisinau, Moldova 125.2 58.0 58.3 51.8 36.5 13.5 28.1 63.4 76.9
Krasnodar, Russia 124.9 63.4 66.1 50.3 36.1 13.6 51.8 55.2 78.7
Moscow, Russia 124.0 84.9 64.8 67.7 47.5 21.6 50.4 54.8 55.8
Saint Petersburg, Russia 123.7 77.0 62.3 61.5 40.3 14.4 49.1 60.1 60.6
Belgrade, Serbia 121.6 67.1 62.2 53.1 47.6 16.5 36.5 69.2 84.1
Kharkiv, Ukraine 119.9 52.5 52.8 49.2 26.9 9.2 38.2 56.9 65.4
Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine 118.0 60.5 54.5 58.1 31.9 12.3 43.1 64.6 70.0
Naples, Italy 115.9 81.0 37.7 59.0 59.0 10.7 43.6 78.5 95.8
Skopje, North Macedonia 115.4 66.8 53.9 54.9 38.1 13.0 27.2 83.0 76.3
Odessa (Odesa), Ukraine 111.3 47.1 44.8 50.9 29.7 14.0 36.6 62.1 79.0
Dnipro, Ukraine 102.2 45.4 46.3 53.9 31.0 10.2 33.5 80.6 69.5
Yekaterinburg, Russia 99.8 60.2 57.0 53.7 40.7 11.6 38.9 69.4 21.3
Novosibirsk, Russia 98.8 62.4 54.7 56.5 36.8 12.2 40.9 67.6 16.1
Tirana, Albania 97.5 46.9 60.2 47.3 49.5 16.9 38.4 87.0 86.4