Most "safe" cities have one soft spot dragging them down after dark or in transit. We ranked cities by their weakest of four sub-scores instead of their average — and found the rare all-rounders, led by Luxembourg, whose worst measure still won't drop below 93/100.
Luxembourg is the most complete city we score: its weakest of four measures — night safety — still sits at 93/100. It has no soft spot to plan around.
A single overall safety score hides a lot. Two cities can both land at 88/100 overall while one is evenly excellent across the board and the other is world-class on three measures and mediocre on the fourth. For a traveller, that fourth measure is the one that ends up mattering — the empty late-night walk back to the hotel, the reliability of the ambulance, the pickpocket on the metro. So instead of averaging, we took each city's minimum of four sub-scores and ranked by the highest floor. The winners are the cities with nowhere to get caught out.
These are the cities whose weakest dimension is still strong. The highlighted number in each row is that weakest measure — the floor the whole city stands on.
| City | Night | Personal | Transport | Healthcare | Weakest measure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 93 | 93 | 93 | 94 | 93 Night safety |
| Monaco, Monaco | 93 | 93 | 93 | 93 | 93 Night safety |
| Tokyo, Japan | 92 | 92 | 93 | 92 | 92 Night safety |
| Kyoto, Japan | 92 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 92 Night safety |
| Osaka, Japan | 91 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 91 Night safety |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 91 Night safety |
| Bern, Switzerland | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 91 Night safety |
| Sapporo, Japan | 91 | 92 | 91 | 92 | 91 Night safety |
| Fukuoka, Japan | 91 | 92 | 91 | 92 | 91 Night safety |
| Singapore, Singapore | 92 | 92 | 94 | 90 | 90 Healthcare |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 89 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 89 Night safety |
| Helsinki, Finland | 87 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 87 Night safety |
| Vienna, Austria | 86 | 86 | 90 | 91 | 86 Night safety |
| Oslo, Norway | 85 | 85 | 88 | 91 | 85 Night safety |
Now the opposite. These are cities most travellers would call "safe," and by average they are — their healthcare and transport scores are excellent. But rank them by their weakest measure and the picture changes: one dimension, usually after dark, sits far below the rest.
| City | Night | Personal | Transport | Healthcare | Weakest measure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris, France | 63 | 64 | 81 | 90 | 63 Night safety |
| Rome, Italy | 64 | 64 | 76 | 85 | 64 Night safety |
| Barcelona, Spain | 59 | 60 | 78 | 86 | 59 Night safety |
Paris is the cleanest example: nothing about its 90/100 healthcare or 81/100 transport is unsafe, but a 63/100 on night safety is what a visitor actually runs into. An all-rounder like Luxembourg never hands you that gap — which is the practical difference between a city that's safe on average and one that's safe on every measure.
Every Kakapo city score breaks into four sub-scores: night safety, personal safety, transport safety and healthcare. For each city we took the minimum of those four and ranked by the highest minimum — the place with the strongest weakest link. We show recognisable major cities; every printed sub-score is the live Kakapo value (Aug 2026) and the weakest-measure column is computed directly from them. Full weighting is at https://kakapo.travel/about/methodology. Scores are comparative model estimates, not official ratings.
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