Drop in where you live now and where you want to go. The score grades the move on cost, safety, climate, jobs, healthcare, transport, internet, language, and visa difficulty, and returns a single number from 1 to 100.
The relocation score is the engine behind everything else on the site. It compares your current city to a target on the same nine axes the city profiles use, then weighs the deltas. A score of 80 or higher means the move is unambiguously better on most axes; 60 to 79 is a balanced trade; below 60 is a marginal call that probably gets reversed inside two years. The threshold is calibrated against our 2024 reader survey, where 71 percent of moves above 80 reported staying past the three year mark, and only 19 percent of moves below 60 did.
The same engine powers the city profile reports for Dubai, Singapore, London, and 47 others, and the comparison pages for every supported pair. If you want the long form read on the city itself, follow the link from your result. If you want a custom weighting that puts your priorities on different axes than the default, the city score generator sits next to this one.
Pick your current city, pick a target, hit recalculate. Returns a single score from 1 to 100 with the breakdown.
Default weighting is balanced: each axis carries 11 percent of the score. For a custom weighting use the city score generator.
Strong move. Better on cost and tax, neutral on safety, slightly worse on climate.
How to read the score. The number on the left is the headline; the breakdown on the right shows where the move wins and loses. A high score with one or two red lines is fine if those lines are not your priorities. A medium score with every line in the green band but no clear advantage is the move that gets reversed: there is no thrust pulling you forward, only the inertia of the decision.
The default weighting is balanced. For custom weights, use the city score generator.
The score for the most common 2026 relocations in our reader data.
The score is calibrated to the survey: above 80 the move sticks past three years 71 percent of the time, below 60 it does not. The number does not save you from a bad relationship, a bad employer, or a city that does not suit your nervous system. It does keep you out of the moves that look great on the spreadsheet and collapse in month seven. Run the score, then run the cost of living calculator and the visa difficulty checker as cross checks. Three numbers, one decision.