Kakapo Safety Index 2026

Safest Cities for Tourists in 2026

Name: Kakapo Safest Cities Index 2026
Creator: Kakapo
License: https://kakapo.travel/safest-cities-2026

131 major cities ranked 0 to 100 on how safe they are to visit, using government and open data. Each score blends personal safety, night safety, transport and healthcare.

Updated 3 July 2026 · 131 cities · Download CSV

Key findings

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is the safest city in the index, scoring 95/100.
20 cities score 90 or above, our "Excellent" band.
The average score across all 131 cities is 79/100.
Scores are neighbourhood-aware: a high city score still means checking your specific area at night.

Full ranking

#	City	Score	Personal	Night	Transport	Health
1	Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates	95	88	88	90	85
2	Kyoto Japan	95	93	92	93	92
3	Sapporo Japan	94	92	91	91	92
4	Taipei Taiwan	94	89	89	89	87
5	Tokyo Japan	94	92	92	93	92
6	Osaka Japan	93	92	91	92	92
7	Reykjavik Iceland	93	92	91	84	86
8	Singapore Singapore	93	92	92	94	90
9	Bern Switzerland	92	92	91	93	94
10	Doha Qatar	92	84	83	88	82
11	Dubai United Arab Emirates	92	86	86	90	85
12	Geneva Switzerland	92	91	91	92	94
13	Helsinki Finland	92	87	87	88	89
14	Wellington New Zealand	92	86	86	89	90
15	Auckland New Zealand	91	85	84	88	90
16	Hong Kong Hong Kong	91	86	85	90	87
17	Luxembourg Luxembourg	91	94	94	92	94
18	Copenhagen Denmark	90	89	89	90	91
19	Muscat Oman	90	84	85	85	80
20	Zurich Switzerland	90	92	91	93	94
21	Dubrovnik Croatia	89	80	79	76	77
22	Frankfurt Germany	89	78	76	87	90
23	Macau Macao	89	83	82	81	84
24	Prague Czechia	89	83	83	84	84
25	Seoul South Korea	89	85	85	90	89
26	Busan South Korea	88	84	84	86	87
27	Munich Germany	88	84	84	89	91
28	Oslo Norway	88	85	85	88	91
29	Vienna Austria	88	86	86	90	91
30	Ljubljana Slovenia	87	85	84	86	87
31	Antwerp Belgium	86	78	76	86	89
32	Cologne Germany	86	80	79	86	90
33	Edinburgh United Kingdom	86	78	78	82	88
34	Hamburg Germany	86	84	83	84	88
35	Porto Portugal	86	80	79	80	81
36	Stockholm Sweden	86	85	85	88	92
37	Sydney Australia	86	81	81	87	89
38	Amsterdam Netherlands	85	78	78	86	89
39	Krakow Poland	85	77	74	77	75
40	Lisbon Portugal	85	80	79	82	84
41	Riyadh Saudi Arabia	85	83	81	83	80
42	Tallinn Estonia	85	81	80	81	80
43	Warsaw Poland	85	78	77	79	78
44	Jeddah Saudi Arabia	84	82	79	78	80
45	Jerusalem Israel	84	65	63	75	84
46	Shanghai China	84	82	79	83	86
47	Turin Italy	84	66	65	79	86
48	Venice Italy	84	73	72	75	83
49	Beijing China	83	77	75	83	81
50	Bratislava Slovakia	83	79	77	81	84
51	Zagreb Croatia	83	80	78	81	84
52	Berlin Germany	82	75	74	85	88
53	Budapest Hungary	82	74	72	76	77
54	Dublin Ireland	82	76	74	81	87
55	Guangzhou China	82	80	77	78	84
56	Madrid Spain	82	77	77	84	88
57	Rotterdam Netherlands	82	83	81	88	92
58	Valencia Spain	82	78	74	79	83
59	Vilnius Lithuania	82	82	80	81	84
60	Boston United States	81	68	66	80	91
61	Chengdu China	81	78	75	82	81
62	Florence Italy	81	70	69	75	83
63	London United Kingdom	81	69	69	85	91
64	Montreal Canada	81	76	75	83	88
65	Vancouver Canada	81	72	71	82	88
66	Bucharest Romania	80	67	66	74	79
67	Manchester United Kingdom	80	66	66	83	90
68	Panama City Panama	80	59	55	64	72
69	Paris France	80	64	63	81	90
70	San Jose Costa Rica	80	59	58	69	73
71	Tel Aviv Israel	80	72	71	80	86
72	Thessaloniki Greece	80	72	70	79	84
73	Lyon France	79	69	69	83	90
74	Melbourne Australia	79	79	78	84	88
75	Milan Italy	79	72	67	80	86
76	Nice France	79	72	67	80	87
77	Riga Latvia	79	77	75	78	78
78	Rome Italy	79	64	64	76	85
79	Seville Spain	79	71	71	78	83
80	Sofia Bulgaria	79	67	66	74	79
81	Toronto Canada	79	73	73	83	88
82	Kuala Lumpur Malaysia	78	70	67	77	76
83	Washington United States	78	60	59	78	87
84	New York City United States	77	65	66	81	88
85	Amman Jordan	76	68	66	70	73
86	Athens Greece	76	64	62	70	76
87	Bangkok Thailand	76	64	59	69	73
88	Barcelona Spain	76	60	59	78	86
89	Belgrade Serbia	76	65	63	70	75
90	Brussels Belgium	76	68	67	81	86
91	Miami United States	76	61	60	75	84
92	Quito Ecuador	76	57	52	63	72
93	Hanoi Vietnam	75	69	66	62	61
94	Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam	75	67	64	64	63
95	Los Angeles United States	74	59	58	75	84
96	Casablanca Morocco	73	62	58	66	65
97	Marseille France	73	64	62	79	90
98	Phnom Penh Cambodia	73	59	55	57	64
99	Bangalore India	72	63	59	67	72
100	Colombo Sri Lanka	72	61	57	55	59
101	Havana Cuba	72	63	61	51	73
102	Istanbul Turkey	72	58	55	67	70
103	Mumbai India	72	54	50	56	62
104	San Francisco United States	72	57	56	76	86
105	Santiago Chile	72	59	57	71	76
106	Tunis Tunisia	72	59	55	62	64
107	Cairo Egypt	71	58	46	48	53
108	Cancun Mexico	71	62	50	60	65
109	Chicago United States	71	56	55	75	84
110	Marrakech Morocco	70	62	59	68	65
111	Cusco Peru	69	53	49	50	53
112	Kathmandu Nepal	69	60	54	40	40
113	Naples Italy	69	56	48	62	79
114	Addis Ababa Ethiopia	68	56	51	53	55
115	Jakarta Indonesia	68	58	45	48	58
116	Mexico City Mexico	68	43	41	59	65
117	Buenos Aires Argentina	66	49	48	63	69
118	Nairobi Kenya	66	41	39	44	46
119	Accra Ghana	65	52	48	41	43
120	Manila Philippines	65	52	42	48	58
121	Medellin Colombia	64	46	44	57	65
122	Bogota Colombia	63	42	40	57	65
123	New Delhi India	62	49	44	54	59
124	Rio de Janeiro Brazil	62	35	34	53	62
125	Lagos Nigeria	61	33	31	30	33
126	Lima Peru	61	42	40	53	59
127	Sao Paulo Brazil	58	39	33	58	65
128	Beirut Lebanon	56	48	44	50	57
129	Cape Town South Africa	56	32	30	57	60
130	Caracas Venezuela	49	15	5	22	32
131	Johannesburg South Africa	48	24	23	51	56

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How the scores work

Each city is scored 0 to 100 from official crime and safety data, weighted across personal safety, night safety, transport and healthcare. Higher is safer. A strong overall score does not mean every neighbourhood is equal, which is why every city also has a full Kakapo safety page with area-level detail. Full method: methodology.

Data by Kakapo, an independent travel-safety platform. We track 160,000+ destinations in our database, compute full safety scores for 1,000+ cities, and rank the 131 largest tourist cities in this index. See our methodology and data sources. Browse travel businesses verified as safe, or get your business verified.