A free tool that ranks cities for remote work by the weights you set: stay cost, weather in your month, safety, your visa and your time zone.
5,0(1 rating)Pick your passport, the month you'll go and what matters to you, to rank cities for living and working remotely by the weights you set, with every number sourced.
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Work hours are compared with yours, 9 to 5 in UTC.
Best cities for you in septembre
This free best cities for digital nomads tool ranks cities for living and working remotely by what matters to you, with every number sourced.
Pick your passport, the month you'll go, and how much stay cost, weather, safety, your visa and your time zone matter. The 58 cities re-rank as you change them, each with a photo, its numbers and a match score out of 100.
TL;DRKey takeaways
How the ranking works
Each city gets a score from 0 to 100 for each thing you care about, and the match is their average, weighted by what you picked:
- Stay cost – the median night in a whole place on Airbnb, from Inside Airbnb's data, cheapest first
- Weather – the average temperature and rain for your month, scored against the range you like
- Safety – the US State Department's travel advice level for the country
- Visa – what your passport needs to get in, and for how many days
- Time zone – how many of your 9 to 5 work hours the city shares
Set anything to Off and it leaves the score.
The lowest-cost cities to stay in
Nairobi- A median night
- $48 a night
- Whole places counted
- 5,723 places
Bangkok- A median night
- $52 a night
- Whole places counted
- 11,633 places
Bogotá- A median night
- $55 a night
- Whole places counted
- 9,897 places
São Paulo- A median night
- $65 a night
- Whole places counted
- 29,958 places
Santiago- A median night
- $67 a night
- Whole places counted
- 11,469 places
Buenos Aires- A median night
- $68 a night
- Whole places counted
- 19,925 places
Thessaloniki- A median night
- $84 a night
- Whole places counted
- 3,588 places
Rio de Janeiro- A median night
- $85 a night
- Whole places counted
- 26,641 places
Istanbul- A median night
- $93 a night
- Whole places counted
- 8,771 places
Taipei- A median night
- $94 a night
- Whole places counted
- 3,416 places
The priciest were Amsterdam ($376), Edinburgh ($367), Seattle ($314). These are nightly prices for a whole place, converted at the ECB's rate of 2026-09-29, and a month-long stay often costs less a night.
The warmest cities in January
Bangkok- Average in January
- 26°C
- Rain a day
- 0.5 mm a day
Singapore- Average in January
- 26°C
- Rain a day
- 7.6 mm a day
Rio de Janeiro- Average in January
- 26°C
- Rain a day
- 6.7 mm a day
Brisbane- Average in January
- 25°C
- Rain a day
- 4.5 mm a day
Buenos Aires- Average in January
- 25°C
- Rain a day
- 3.4 mm a day
Sydney- Average in January
- 23°C
- Rain a day
- 2.7 mm a day
The weather is NASA POWER's 2001 to 2020 average for the area around each city, so a coastal city can read a little cooler than its center.
Where the numbers come from
Every number has a source you can check:
- Stay cost – Inside Airbnb, June 2026, under CC BY 4.0
- Weather – NASA POWER, monthly averages from 2001 to 2020
- Safety – the US State Department's travel advisories, updated daily in the travel advisory map
- Visa – each passport's requirements, as in the passport index
- Photos – Wikimedia Commons, each with its author and license on the card
How to use best cities for digital nomads
Your picks stay in this browser.
Who is best cities for digital nomads for?
It's for remote workers choosing where to live next, and each of them has a next step:
- Digital nomad visa finder – anyone staying longer than a visitor can
- Nomad health insurance finder – anyone needing cover abroad
- eSIM finder – anyone getting mobile data on arrival
- Time zone overlap – anyone working with clients at home
More travel tools are on the free travel tools page. Or browse all my free tools.
Best Cities for Digital Nomads FAQs
Questions about choosing a city to work from? Here's what to know.
It depends on what matters to you: the ranking changes with your passport, your month and your weights.
Set them in the tool and the cities re-rank.
Among these cities, Nairobi had the lowest median night for a whole place on Airbnb, at about $48.
That's a nightly price, and a month-long stay often costs less a night.
Bangkok, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro were the warmest of these cities in January, from NASA's 2001 to 2020 averages.
From Inside Airbnb's June 2026 data: the median night of whole places with a review in the last 12 months.
It's shared under CC BY 4.0.
The open speed data I use needs a separate setup first, so it's not in the ranking yet.
The cities are ranked only on numbers with a source.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and the best cities for digital nomads tool is one of my free tools on navid.me.
Read about me, or see my creator profile.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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