TTDI Best Cities Index: December 2026

Ranked from measured data refreshed on a fixed cadence; the scoring thresholds are methodology choices, disclosed below.

Ranking 66 TTDI-covered cities · data cut 2026-07-16 · methodology v1.0 · forecast edition

Forecast edition: this period had not yet occurred at the data cut. Climate figures are climatological normals and the events pillar reflects listings known in advance, not observed data. † 25 of 66 cities have no events feed this period: their scores renormalize to climate 0.80 / daylight 0.20 and they sit outside the events percent-rank pool.

Key findings

• Buenos Aires is the month's best city of the 66 TTDI-covered cities, scoring 100.0/100.
• Month scores span 100.0 (Buenos Aires) to 0.6 (Seattle): a 99.4-point spread.
• The median month score is 28.1/100.

Rank	City	Month score (0–100)	Comfort band	Rain h/day	Events	Daylight h
1	Buenos Aires	100.0	ideal	0.9	:	14.3
2	San José	91.4	ideal	0.9	:	11.4
3	Taipei	88.2	ideal	1	:	10.5
4	Doha	88.1	ideal	0.2	:	10.4
5	Kathmandu	87.5	ideal	0.1	:	10.3
6	Marrakech	86.5	ideal	0.9	:	9.9
=7	Cape Town	75.0	ideal	0.4	0	14.2
=7	Sydney	75.0	ideal	1	0	14.2
9	Bangkok	73.3	good	0.2	:	11.2
10	Mumbai	72.5	good	0.2	:	10.9
11	Honolulu	66.8	ideal	1	0	10.7
12	Abu Dhabi	66.2	ideal	0.1	0	10.5
13	Dubai	66.1	ideal	0.2	0	10.4
14	Austin	65.1	ideal	0.8	0	10.1
15	Crete	64.1	ideal	1	0	9.6
16	Mykonos	62.6	good	1	:	9.4
17	Lisbon	59.8	good	1.6	:	9.3
18	Las Vegas	51.0	good	0.3	0	9.5
19	Cartagena	48.7	mixed	0.5	:	11.4
20	Miami	47.3	good	1.5	0	10.4
21	Barcelona	46.9	good	0.9	0	9
22	Seville	46.0	good	1.4	0	9.4
23	Rome	44.9	good	1.5	0	9
24	Palm Beach	44.7	mixed	0.8	:	11.3
25	Cannes	44.6	good	1.3	0	8.8
26	Shanghai	44.1	mixed	0.5	:	10
=27	Kyoto	41.6	mixed	0.8	:	9.7
=27	Osaka	41.6	mixed	0.7	:	9.7
29	Tokyo	40.2	mixed	0.9	:	9.6
30	Bucharest	36.8	mixed	1.1	:	8.7
31	Branson	29.9	mixed	0.9	0	9.5
32	Cappadocia	29.8	mixed	0.8	0	9.3
33	Madrid	28.2	mixed	1	0	9.1
34	Los Angeles	28.1	mixed	1.6	0	9.7
35	Nashville	26.8	mixed	1.6	0	9.6
36	Istanbul	26.0	mixed	1.6	0	9.1
37	Philadelphia	25.9	mixed	1.8	0	9.2
38	New York	25.5	mixed	1.8	0	9.1
39	Copenhagen	24.5	mixed	1.2	0	6.8
40	Florence	23.9	mixed	2.1	0	8.7
41	Brussels	23.7	mixed	1.5	0	7.7
=42	Antwerp	23.5	mixed	1.6	0	7.7
=42	London	23.5	mixed	1.4	0	7.6
44	Paris	23.4	mixed	1.4	0	8.1
45	Amsterdam	23.0	mixed	1.5	0	7.5
46	San Francisco	22.4	mixed	2.8	0	9.4
47	Dublin	22.2	mixed	1.8	0	7.3
48	Medellin	21.8	difficult	1.6	:	11.6
49	Edinburgh	20.8	mixed	2.1	0	6.7
50	Beijing	19.6	difficult	0.1	:	9.2
51	Seoul	17.1	difficult	0.6	:	9.4
52	Bali	15.0	difficult	3.9	:	12.5
53	Singapore	13.1	difficult	3.9	:	11.9
54	Sapporo	10.3	difficult	1.4	:	8.8
55	Budapest	10.1	difficult	1.3	:	8.3
56	Chicago	9.5	difficult	1.3	0	9
57	Riga	8.9	difficult	1.2	:	6.5
58	Edmonton	8.7	difficult	0.8	0	7.2
59	Krakow	8.5	difficult	0.9	0	7.9
60	Stockholm	7.7	difficult	1	0	5.8
61	Oslo	7.1	difficult	1.2	0	5.6
62	Berlin	6.7	difficult	1.3	0	7.4
=63	Saratoga Springs	6.6	difficult	2	0	8.8
=63	Toronto	6.6	difficult	1.7	0	8.8
65	Helsinki	5.9	difficult	1.5	0	5.5
66	Seattle	0.6	difficult	4	0	8.2

Cite this index

Buenos Aires leads the TTDI Best Cities Index: December 2026 of 66 TTDI-covered cities.

TTDI Best Cities Index: December 2026, TTDI.net research (https://ttdi.net/research/best-cities-monthly/2026-12/), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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