Best cities to live in Europe
A livability ranking of 80 cities from the EU’s open perception survey (2023) — an overall composite plus the six dimensions behind it. City-level and Europe-only: the one openly-licensed city ranking (Mercer, EIU and the Economist’s indices are proprietary).
Happiness across Europe — countries and their cities
Countries shaded by the World Happiness Report life-evaluation score; each dot is a city, sized by its rating on the metric you pick and coloured by whether it ranks above or below its own country. Two scales (a 0–10 ladder for countries, “% satisfied” for cities), so they stay on separate encodings — but city satisfaction tracks national happiness closely (r ≈ 0.69). Hover for detail; click a country to focus it and its cities.
City rankings
Source: Eurostat — Perception survey on quality of life in European cities · Eurostat urb_percep · CC BY 4.0 (Eurostat reuse policy). Top-2-box (strongly/very + somewhat/fairly).