Mercer Quality of Living Survey

2019 rank[3]

2018 rank[4]

2016 rank

2015 rank

2014 rank

2012 rank

2010 rank

City

Country

Index 2010

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Vienna

Austria
108.6

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Zürich

Switzerland
108.0

3

3

4

4

4

4

7

Munich

Germany
107.0

3

4

3

3

3

3

4

Auckland

New ZealandNew Zealand

107.4

3

5

5

5

5

5

3

Vancouver
CanadaCanada

107.4

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Düsseldorf

Germany
107.2

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

Frankfurt

Germany
107.0

8

9

9

9

9

9

11

Copenhagen

Denmark
106.2

9

8

8

8

8

8

3

Geneva

Switzerland
107.9

10

10

Basel

Switzerland

11

10

10

10

10

10

10

Sydney

AustraliaAustralia

106.3

11

12

11

11

11

12

13

Amsterdam

Netherlands
105.7

13

13

13

14

16

17

Berlin

Germany
105.0

14

14

14

13

10

10

9

Bern

Switzerland
106.5

15

15

12

12

12

13

12

Wellington

New ZealandNew Zealand

105.9

16

16

15

15

15

15

16

Toronto
CanadaCanada

105.3

17

16

15

16

17

18

Melbourne

AustraliaAustralia

104.8

18

18

19

19

19

19

Luxembourg

Luxembourg
104.6

19

19

17

16

14

14

14

Ottawa

CanadaCanada

105.5

19

19

18

16

17

23

Hamburg

Germany
104.1

21

21

21

22

21

21

Perth
AustraliaAustralia

104.2

21

21

23

24

23

23

21

Montreal

CanadaCanada

104.2

23

23

19

19

19

20

Stockholm

Sweden
104.5

23

23

25

25

24

24

Nuremberg

Germany
103.9

25

25

26

26

25

28

Singapore
SingaporeSingapore

103.5

25

25

30

31

32

24

Oslo

Norway
103.9

27

28

24

21

27

30

Stuttgart

Germany
103.3

28

27

21

22

22

15

Brussels

Belgium
105.4

29

29

27

27

29

32

Adelaide

AustraliaAustralia

103.0

30

30

28

30

26

26

Canberra

AustraliaAustralia

103.6

31

32

30

31

32

35

Helsinki

Finland
102.6

32

33

32

33

32

28

Calgary

CanadaCanada

103.5

33

34

33

34

34

35

26

Dublin

Republic of Ireland
103.6

34

30

28

27

27

29

32

San Francisco

United StatesUnited States

103.0

35

37

36

37

37

36

Brisbane

AustraliaAustralia

102.4

36

35

34

34

35

37

Boston
United StatesUnited States

102.2

37

36

35

36

28

31

Honolulu

United StatesUnited States

103.1

37

38

42

41

43

44

45

Lisbon

Portugal
100.3

39

39

37

27

29

34

Paris
FranceFrance

102.9

40

40

38

39

39

38

Lyon

FranceFrance

101.9

41

41

39

40

38

39

London
United KingdomUnited Kingdom

101.6

41

42

41

41

41

41

Milan
ItalyItaly

100.8

43

43

39

38

40

44

Barcelona

Spain
100.6

45

46

46

Edinburgh

United KingdomUnited Kingdom

46

44

46

44

44

50

Seattle
United StatesUnited States

99.8

46

49

Madrid

Spain

49

47

43

43

42

45

Chicago
United StatesUnited States

100.3

49

50

44

44

44

40

Tokyo
Japan
101.4

49

50

46

47

48

41

Kobe
Japan
100.8

49

50

Birmingham

United KingdomUnited Kingdom

53

48

51

50

43

45

Washington, D.C.

United StatesUnited States

100.3

55

Yokohama

Japan

56

Rome

ItalyItaly

58

Osaka

Japan

60

Leipzig

Germany

62

Nagoya

Japan

71

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

72

Pointe-à-Pitre

France

74

Ljubljana

Slovenia

76

Budapest

Hungary

77

Seoul

South Korea

78

Montevideo

Uruguay

80

Bratislava

Slovakia

81

Vilnius

LithuaniaLithuania

82

Warsaw

Poland

83

Port Louis

Mauritius

84

Taipei

Taiwan

85

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

86

Tallinn

Estonia

88

Durban

South Africa

89

Athens

Greece

90

Riga

Latvia

91

Buenos Aires

Argentina

92

San Juan

Puerto Rico

93

Santiago

Chile

94

Busan

South Korea

95

Cape Town

South Africa

96

Johannesburg

South Africa

97

Panama City

Panama

98

Victoria

Seychelles

98

Zagreb

Croatia

100

Wroclaw

Poland