Kyoto, Japan is the world's safest major city after dark for 2026, scoring 92/100 on night safety. We ranked the world's big cities by Kakapo's night-safety sub-score — a measure no other travel index publishes.
Kyoto, Japan is the safest on this ranking for 2026, scoring 92/100 on night-safety score — against a set average of 63.4 across 327 cities.
Ranked by Kakapo's night-safety sub-score — how safe the streets are in public after dark. These are the easiest cities to land late in, or walk back from dinner. East Asia and the Gulf dominate.
| # | City | Night-safety score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyoto, Japan | 92 | 95 |
| 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 92 | 94 |
| 3 | Sagamihara, Japan | 92 | 94 |
| 4 | Singapore, Singapore | 92 | 93 |
| 5 | Yokohama, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 6 | Sapporo, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 7 | Fukuoka, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 8 | Hiroshima, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 9 | Nagoya, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 10 | Kobe, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 11 | Hamamatsu, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 12 | Shizuoka, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 13 | Osaka, Japan | 91 | 93 |
| 14 | Québec, Canada | 90 | 88 |
| 15 | Taipei, Taiwan | 89 | 94 |
For contrast, these are the lowest-scoring cities in the same pool on this metric — useful for calibrating what a given score actually means.
| # | City | Night-safety score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 323 | Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic | 21 | 31 |
| 324 | Aden, Yemen | 21 | 29 |
| 325 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 13 | 46 |
| 326 | Caracas, Venezuela | 5 | 42 |
| 327 | Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic | 2 | 20 |
We queried the live Kakapo index for every city above 500,000 residents in scope, deduplicated by city (keeping the largest-population entity), and ranked them by night-safety score. The metric is the night-safety sub-score, distinct from daytime personal safety. Scores draw on national travel advisories from seven governments plus crime, transport and healthcare data; full weighting is at https://kakapo.travel/about/methodology. Scores are comparative model estimates, updated continuously, not incident counts — this page reads them live, so the numbers match the rest of the site.
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Kakapo Editorial Team (2026). The World's Safest Cities After Dark 2026. Kakapo. https://kakapo.travel/blog/safest-cities-after-dark-2026
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