City Rankings

Where your money buys the most life

150+ cities ranked by Runway Liveability — a blend of what your budget buys (affordability) and how good life actually feels there (liveability). Cheaper isn't automatically better; we surface places where a longer stay and a richer experience meet.

36 cities tracked · updated 2026-09-09

#	City	Region	Est. monthly	Days / $1K	Affordability	Liveability	Runway Liveability ▼
1	Hoi An Runway Discovery Vietnam · VN	Southeast Asia	$767/mo	40	93	100	97
2	Chiang Mai Runway Discovery Thailand · TH	Southeast Asia	$906/mo	34	85	100	93
3	Hanoi Runway Discovery Vietnam · VN	Southeast Asia	$911/mo	33	85	95	90
4	Bangkok Runway Discovery Thailand · TH	Southeast Asia	$1,271/mo	24	64	100	82
5	Tbilisi Runway Discovery Georgia · GE	Europe	$1,036/mo	29	78	80	79
6	Medellín Runway Discovery Colombia · CO	Latin America	$1,121/mo	27	73	82	78
7	Marrakech Runway Discovery Morocco · MA	Africa / Middle East	$1,100/mo	28	74	69	72
8	Denpasar (Bali) Indonesia · ID	Southeast Asia	$1,023/mo	30	79	56	68
9	Mexico City Mexico · MX	Latin America	$1,594/mo	19	46	79	63
10	Da Nang Vietnam · VN	Southeast Asia	$648/mo	47	100	14	57
11	Porto Portugal · PT	Europe	$1,056/mo	29	79	32	56
12	Penang Malaysia · MY	Southeast Asia	$768/mo	40	96	14	55
13	Budapest Hungary · HU	Europe	$2,258/mo	13	8	100	54
14	Chiang Mai Thailand · TH	Southeast Asia	$696/mo	44	99	9	54
15	Hanoi Vietnam · VN	Southeast Asia	$684/mo	45	100	5	53
16	Medellín Colombia · CO	Latin America	$768/mo	40	96	9	53
17	Tbilisi Georgia · GE	Europe	$720/mo	42	99	5	52
18	Kraków Poland · PL	Europe	$948/mo	32	85	18	52
19	Oaxaca Mexico · MX	Latin America	$720/mo	42	99	5	52
20	Denpasar Indonesia · ID	Southeast Asia	$816/mo	37	93	9	51
21	Prague Czech Republic · CZ	Europe	$2,680/mo	11	0	100	50
22	Tirana Albania · AL	Europe	$696/mo	44	100	0	50
23	Yerevan Armenia · AM	Europe	$708/mo	43	99	0	50
24	Belgrade Serbia · RS	Europe	$816/mo	37	93	5	49
25	Cape Town South Africa · ZA	Africa / Middle East	$900/mo	34	88	9	49
26	Cape Town South Africa · ZA	Africa / Middle East	$1,709/mo	18	39	58	49
27	Lisbon Portugal · PT	Europe	$1,236/mo	25	68	27	48
28	Buenos Aires Argentina · AR	Latin America	$888/mo	34	89	5	47
29	Prague Czechia · CZ	Europe	$1,128/mo	27	75	16	46
30	Bangkok Thailand · TH	Southeast Asia	$936/mo	33	85	0	43
31	Mexico City Mexico · MX	Latin America	$960/mo	32	85	0	43
32	Berlin Germany · DE	Europe	$1,584/mo	19	48	18	33
33	Tokyo Japan · JP	East Asia	$1,824/mo	17	34	27	31
34	Paris France · FR	Europe	$1,980/mo	15	27	5	16
35	London United Kingdom · GB	Europe	$2,076/mo	15	21	9	15
36	New York United States · US	—	$2,400/mo	13	0	0	0

Cost & quality are modeled from our maintained country baselines × per-city multipliers — free, no third-party API. Monthly costs are estimates (NYC ≈ $2,400/mo backpacker); "modeled" cities are derived, "seed" cities are curated. Scores are normalized across the tracked set.