10 Safest Cities for Expats in 2026

Routinely ranked the world's safest city — low crime, clean streets, and you can leave a laptop on a café table.

Astonishingly safe — lost wallets get returned and late-night trains feel secure for everyone.

Among the safest cities on earth, with a level of public order and infrastructure reliability that reframes what normal means.

One of the world's safest cities — crime is negligible and family life feels notably secure.

The strongest safety case anywhere in this app's US set. Irvine has been ranked among the safest large cities in the United States for many years running, and it is a genuine and well-documented outlier rather than an artefact of being suburban. The real hazards here are wildfire and earthquake, not crime.

Among the very safest places in the world, with almost no violent crime; the real risks here are weather and terrain.

Among the safest cities in a very safe country — a low-rise, family-heavy town where the standing advice to newcomers is about heat and the road, not about crime.

Among the safest cities anywhere, with the orderliness and infrastructure reliability that reframes what normal means — and none of the border-city edges Basel and Geneva carry.

Very safe, with tourism pressure concentrated on a few streets rather than spread across where people actually live.

Among the safest cities in Europe on any measure, with a car-free centre that removes the main urban risk most capitals have.