Resonance is a leading advisor in tourism, real estate and economic development, and its World’s Best Cities rankings quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity for the planet’s urban centres.
They are lauded as the world’s most thorough city ranking, based on original methodology that analyses key statistics, user-generated reviews, social media and online activity.
This inaugural Europe’s Best Cities ranking is an important, timely analysis of a continent that is leading the world in post-pandemic tourism recovery.

Access the 2023 Europe’s Best Cities Report and all 100 city profiles at WorldsBestCities.com.

“The 2023 Europe’s Best Cities rankings benchmark the overall performance of more than 125 metropolitan centres with populations of 500,000 or more, based on a wide variety of measures in order to identify the top 100 places to live, visit and invest in Europe,” says Resonance President & CEO Chris Fair.

The overall Best Cities rankings are determined by analysing the performance of each city for a wide range of factors that have historically shown positive correlations with attracting employment, investment and/or visitors to cities.

Based on each city’s performance in the 24 factors analysed, these are Europe’s Top 10 Best Cities for 2023:

London, England
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barcelona, Spain
Zürich, Switzerland
Madrid, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Rome, Italy
Basel, Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
The full ranking and profiles of all 100 of Europe’s best cities are available at WorldsBestCities.com.