This tier list places every city by its Food score alone, our 1 to 10 rating for food. It is one of the 13 factors behind the overall Nomad Score, isolated here so you can see which cities lead on food and which lag.
Tiers follow the Food score: S is 9 to 10, A is 8, B is 7, C is 6, D is 5, F is below 5. Tap any city for its full breakdown, or see the all-round tier list and the ranked lists.
Mexico City
Oaxaca
Penang
Bangkok
Tokyo
Paris
Lyon
Rome
Osaka
Bologna
Naples
San Sebastián
Tainan
New York
Buenos Aires
Kuala Lumpur
Ho Chi Minh City
Barcelona
Seoul
Singapore
Melbourne
Hanoi
Taipei
Mumbai
Lima
London
Milan
Florence
Madrid
Istanbul
Hong Kong
Copenhagen
Kyoto
Busan
Fukuoka
Montreal
São Paulo
Bilbao
Bordeaux
Lecce
Genoa
Strasbourg
Aix-en-Provence
Can Tho
Hue
Hiroshima
Kanazawa
Kaohsiung
Los Angeles
Chicago
Lisbon
Chiang Mai
Tbilisi
Cape Town
Porto
Dubai
Austin
Miami
Vancouver
Sydney
Tel Aviv
Marrakech
Guadalajara
Vienna
Geneva
Nice
Palermo
Valencia
Seville
Athens
Thessaloniki
Crete
San Miguel de Allende
Mérida
Stockholm
Brussels
Kochi
Hoi An
Sapporo
Nagoya
Ipoh
Toronto
Portland
Seattle
Salvador
Mendoza
Beirut
Marseille
Turin
Verona
Bari
Catania
Girona
Chania
Malacca
Trieste
Alicante
Zaragoza
Leuven
Nuremberg
Düsseldorf
Grenoble
Chiang Rai
Pattaya
Sanur
Solo
Medan
Makassar
Kuching
Johor Bahru
Davao
Iloilo
Gwangju
Daegu
San Diego
Boston
Nashville
Cancún
Querétaro
Mazatlán
Barranquilla
Trujillo
Rosario
Mar del Plata
Recife
Alexandria
Ramallah
Yazd
Medellín
Bali (Canggu)
Budapest
Split
Montevideo
Berlin
Prague
Amsterdam
Auckland
Da Nang
Manila
Bangalore
Goa
Colombo
Cairo
Casablanca
Cusco
Bogotá
Cartagena
Santiago
Valparaíso
San Juan
Puerto Vallarta
Zurich
Manchester
Edinburgh
Málaga
Krakow
Yerevan
Antalya
Phuket
Ubud
Oslo
Helsinki
Dubrovnik
Hamburg
Antwerp
Ghent
Yogyakarta
Pune
Shenzhen
Jaipur
Jeju Island
Denver
Florianópolis
Arequipa
Córdoba
Guanajuato
Cali
Abu Dhabi
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Wellington
Gijón
Toulouse
Montpellier
Nantes
Annecy
Munich
Salzburg
Basel
Lausanne
Palma de Mallorca
Cádiz
Granada
Cascais
Bruges
Gothenburg
Aarhus
Rhodes
Santorini
Izmir
Bandung
Oxford
Cambridge
York
Bath
Trondheim
Turku
Groningen
The Hague
Luxembourg City
Stuttgart
Freiburg
Khao Lak
Kanchanaburi
Baguio
Ninh Binh
Battambang
Calgary
Victoria
Ottawa
León
Manizales
Pereira
Guayaquil
Luxor
Maputo
Riyadh
Jeddah
Kuwait City
Darwin
Canberra
Nouméa
Tallinn
Playa del Carmen
Belgrade
Las Palmas
Cebu
Siem Reap
Phnom Penh
Kathmandu
Lagos
Quito
Panama City
Antigua
Dublin
Tenerife
Cyprus
Warsaw
Bucharest
Riga
Vilnius
Sarajevo
Baku
Batumi
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Gdańsk
Wrocław
Brno
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Faro
Cork
Vientiane
Langkawi
Hua Hin
Koh Samui
Nha Trang
Tulum
Bariloche
Santo Domingo
Johannesburg
Tunis
Essaouira
Addis Ababa
Mauritius
Amman
Doha
Queenstown
Gold Coast
Christchurch
Byron Bay
Hobart
Ericeira
Canggu
Valletta
Phu Quoc
Rabat
Cologne
Frankfurt
Dresden
Leipzig
Heidelberg
Innsbruck
Graz
Lucerne
Ibiza
Marbella
Coimbra
Funchal
Brighton
Bristol
Glasgow
Galway
Maastricht
Bergen
Malmö
Kotor
Pula
Zadar
Piran
Paphos
Bodrum
Fethiye
Cappadocia
Kutaisi
Haifa
Luang Prabang
Krabi
Da Lat
Kota Kinabalu
Surabaya
Malang
Semarang
Tromsø
Oulu
Vang Vieng
Sihanoukville
Praia
Windhoek
Kampala
Arusha
Salalah
Suva
Pokhara
Accra
Nairobi
Santa Cruz
La Paz
Asunción
San José
Tamarindo
Cluj-Napoca
Sofia
Tirana
Skopje
Koh Phangan
Reykjavik
Weligama
Santa Marta
Cuenca
Punta Cana
Puerto Escondido
Sayulita
Lake Atitlán
Dakar
Zanzibar
Chefchaouen
Muscat
Cairns
Plovdiv
Tarifa
Stavanger
Poznań
Ponta Delgada
Eindhoven
Tampere
Tartu
Kaunas
Klaipėda
Košice
Bratislava
Sibiu
Brașov
Timișoara
Varna
Novi Sad
Mostar
Ohrid
Sarandë
Prizren
Bled
Gyumri
Eilat
Aqaba
Manama
Pai
Kampot
Quy Nhon
Sapa
Palawan
Boracay
Dumaguete
Lombok
Sucre
Cochabamba
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Frequently asked questions
What is this tier list based on?
Each city is placed purely by its Food score, our 1 to 10 rating for food. S tier is 9 to 10, down to F for below 5.
Which cities are S tier?
Mexico City, Oaxaca, Penang, Bangkok, Tokyo, Paris, Lyon, Rome, Osaka, Bologna, Naples, San Sebastián, Tainan, New York, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Barcelona, Seoul, Singapore, Melbourne, Hanoi, Taipei, Mumbai, Lima, London, Milan, Florence, Madrid, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Kyoto, Busan, Fukuoka, Montreal, São Paulo, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Lecce, Genoa, Strasbourg, Aix-en-Provence, Can Tho, Hue, Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Kaohsiung, Los Angeles, Chicago. S tier is deliberately rare.
Is a lower-tier city a bad place to live?
Not necessarily. The tiers rank one dimension, so a lower-tier city can still be a great fit if it is strong in the things you care about most. Open any city to see its full breakdown.
How often is it updated?
It is generated directly from our city data, so it updates whenever scores change or new cities are added.











