Climate resilience ranked across heat, water, flood, fire, and grid. Helsinki at 9.2, Copenhagen at 9.0, Vancouver at 8.9.
Helsinki at 9.2 tops the 2026 read. Copenhagen at 9.0. Vancouver at 8.9. Oslo at 8.8. Zurich at 8.7. The resilience index weights 5 variables: heat ceiling, water security, flood risk, wildfire proximity, grid resilience.
1 Helsinki 9.2. 2 Copenhagen 9.0. 3 Vancouver 8.9. 4 Oslo 8.8. 5 Zurich 8.7. 6 Stockholm 8.7. 7 Geneva 8.6. 8 Wellington 8.5. 9 Montreal 8.5. 10 Tallinn 8.4. 11 Toronto 8.3. 12 Edinburgh 8.3. 13 Reykjavik 8.2. 14 Vienna 8.1. 15 Munich 8.0. 16 Auckland 7.9. 17 Hamburg 7.8. 18 Amsterdam 7.7. 19 Berlin 7.6. 20 Dublin 7.5. 21 Quebec City 7.5. 22 Tampere 7.4. 23 Bergen 7.3. 24 Salzburg 7.2. 25 Antwerp 7.1.
The cities the resilience index punishes most in 2026: Phoenix at 4.1, Las Vegas at 4.3, Dubai at 4.6 (offset by capital depth), Cairo at 4.0, Jakarta at 4.5.