Singapore, Singapore is the safest major city to get around in for 2026, scoring 94/100 on transport. We ranked the world's big cities by Kakapo's transport sub-score — public transit, roads and taxis.
Singapore, Singapore is the safest on this ranking for 2026, scoring 94/100 on transport score — against a set average of 70.5 across 327 cities.
Ranked by Kakapo's transport sub-score — how safe it is to move around the city on public transit, in taxis and on the roads. A high score means you can rely on the metro and skip the risk premium of informal transport.
| # | City | Transport score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore, Singapore | 94 | 93 |
| 2 | Kyoto, Japan | 93 | 95 |
| 3 | Tokyo, Japan | 93 | 94 |
| 4 | Sagamihara, Japan | 93 | 94 |
| 5 | Yokohama, Japan | 92 | 95 |
| 6 | Nagoya, Japan | 92 | 94 |
| 7 | Kobe, Japan | 92 | 94 |
| 8 | Osaka, Japan | 92 | 93 |
| 9 | Sapporo, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 10 | Fukuoka, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 11 | Hiroshima, Japan | 91 | 95 |
| 12 | Hamamatsu, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 13 | Shizuoka, Japan | 91 | 94 |
| 14 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 90 | 95 |
| 15 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 90 | 92 |
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 | Transport score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 323 | Sadr City, Iraq | 31 | 31 |
| 324 | Lagos, Nigeria | 30 | 54 |
| 325 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 27 | 46 |
| 326 | Caracas, Venezuela | 22 | 42 |
| 327 | Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic | 13 | 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 transport score. The metric is the transport sub-score, not overall 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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