№ 00 — Tools

Ten tools to size up the city.

Free. Transparent on methodology. The structural everycity tool stack runs across the cost, tax, climate, visa, and lifestyle filter horizon. Pick any tool to walk the structural calculation against the central capital tier.

№ 01 — The Stack

The ten tools.

The structural tool output applies the everycity 10 point index plus the underlying ranked axis at the central tier. Every tool cites the structural data source (Numbeo May 2026, Mercer 2026, OECD 2025, the relevant national tax and immigration authority) and runs the structural transparent calculation against the qualifying input. Free at the user tier with zero login friction.

Calculator
Cost of Living Calculator
Compare a salary across any two cities at the structural Numbeo May 2026 cost basket plus the central tier rent reading.
Quiz
Where Should I Live
12 questions, 90 seconds. Returns the 20 cities that fit your cost, climate, tax, and lifestyle weights.
Score
Relocation Score
Grade your current city against any target on a 1 to 100 composite of cost, safety, climate, salary, tax, and visa friction.
Tax
After Tax Salary
Calculate take home pay across 84 jurisdictions at the federal plus state plus local progressive ceiling reading.
Visa
Visa Difficulty Checker
Rate the visa friction for the 87 most relocator relevant corridors at the qualifying income, point, and process tier.
Score
City Score Generator
Build a custom weighted everycity index. Set your own axis weights across cost, safety, climate, salary, tax, lifestyle, and family.
Climate
Best Month to Visit
Returns the optimal travel month for any city across the structural daytime envelope, rainfall, and crowd reading.
Climate
Climate Match
Find the cities with weather similar to home. Match by January window, July window, sunshine hours, and humidity reading.
Lifestyle
Neighborhood Matcher
Match neighborhoods to your lifestyle weights across walkability, nightlife, family, food, transit, and quiet.
Cost
Cost Converter
Adjust any salary or budget for purchasing power across 5,000 cities. Numbeo plus OECD reading.
№ 02 — By Theme

The structural tool themes.

The structural cost themes: cost of living calculator, cost converter, tax calculator.

The structural fit themes: where should I live quiz, relocation score, city score generator, neighborhood matcher.

The structural climate themes: climate match, best month to visit.

The structural visa themes: visa difficulty checker.

For the structural single city deep dive, see the cities directory; for the structural ranked field, see the rankings index; for the structural side by side, see the comparisons index; for the structural editorial mission, see the about page.

№ 03 — Methodology

How the tools work.

Every tool calculates against the same data layer that the structural city profile, country page, continent page, and ranking pulls from. The structural Numbeo cost of living index, the Mercer Cost of Living Survey, the OECD Better Life Index, the World Bank Open Data, the EIU Safe Cities Index, the Speedtest Global Index, the Glassdoor and Levels.fyi salary medians, the relevant national tax authority headline rates, and the relevant national immigration authority visa thresholds anchor the structural input cluster. The full methodology page walks the 28 ranked axes plus the data source disclosure.

Sources, May 2026. Numbeo cost of living index May 2026 · Mercer Cost of Living Survey 2026 · OECD Better Life Index 2025 · World Bank Open Data 2025 · Speedtest Global Index April 2026 · EIU Safe Cities Index 2025 · Numbeo Crime Index May 2026 · Glassdoor and Levels.fyi salary medians 2026 · Bloomberg Global Financial Centres Index 2025 · Startup Genome Global Startup Ecosystem 2025 · the relevant national tax authorities for headline rates. First published February 4, 2024. Last updated May 4, 2026.