Safest cities in Europe
588 ranked cities across 40 countries · data updated 2026-09-04
Every city in Europe with 100,000 or more residents, scored on the same fixed mix of published data used everywhere on this site: homicide rate, deaths from organized violence nearby, income inequality and human development. Scores are comparable worldwide, so a rank here is a rank among all 6,168 cities, not just this continent.
Safest cities in Europe
- KrakowPoland · 94.3 · #7 worldwide
- LjubljanaSlovenia · 93.9 · #8 worldwide
- BucharestRomania · 93.0 · #9 worldwide
- GenevaSwitzerland · 92.0 · #10 worldwide
- LuxembourgLuxembourg · 91.7 · #15 worldwide
- AarhusDenmark · 91.3 · #91 worldwide
- LyonFrance · 89.8 · #94 worldwide
- ReykjavikIceland · 89.5 · #95 worldwide
- OsloNorway · 88.4 · #109 worldwide
- PilsenCzechia · 88.2 · #110 worldwide
Lowest-scoring cities in Europe
- BelgorodRussia · 40.9 · #5773 worldwide
- TaganrogRussia · 42.5 · #5698 worldwide
- KurskRussia · 44.8 · #5553 worldwide
- KramatorskUkraine · 49.1 · #5295 worldwide
- HorlivkaUkraine · 49.1 · #5294 worldwide
- AlchevskUkraine · 49.1 · #5293 worldwide
- MakiivkaUkraine · 49.1 · #5292 worldwide
- KropyvnytskyiUkraine · 49.1 · #5291 worldwide
- CherkasyUkraine · 49.1 · #5290 worldwide
- LuhanskUkraine · 49.1 · #5289 worldwide
A low score reflects the published figures behind it — usually a high homicide rate, conflict deaths recorded nearby, or both. Each city page shows which.
Countries in Europe, by average city score
- Sloveniaavg 94 · 1 city · best Ljubljana
- Luxembourgavg 92 · 1 city · best Luxembourg
- Icelandavg 90 · 1 city · best Reykjavik
- Maltaavg 88 · 1 city · best Valletta
- Norwayavg 88 · 4 cities · best Oslo
- Polandavg 86 · 23 cities · best Krakow
- Albaniaavg 85 · 2 cities · best Tirana
- Netherlandsavg 85 · 24 cities · best Utrecht
- Denmarkavg 85 · 4 cities · best Aarhus
- Swedenavg 84 · 7 cities · best Stockholm
- Italyavg 84 · 37 cities · best Rome
- Switzerlandavg 84 · 7 cities · best Geneva
- Hungaryavg 83 · 5 cities · best Debrecen
- Irelandavg 83 · 3 cities · best Cork
- Croatiaavg 83 · 3 cities · best Zagreb
- Spainavg 83 · 49 cities · best Madrid
- Finlandavg 82 · 3 cities · best Tampere
- Czechiaavg 82 · 4 cities · best Pilsen
- United Kingdomavg 81 · 77 cities · best Birmingham
- Greeceavg 81 · 6 cities · best Thessaloniki
- Romaniaavg 81 · 17 cities · best Bucharest
- Germanyavg 80 · 52 cities · best Hamburg
- Belgiumavg 80 · 5 cities · best Antwerp
- Belarusavg 80 · 11 cities · best Minsk
- Austriaavg 80 · 5 cities · best Linz
- Franceavg 79 · 40 cities · best Lyon
- Montenegroavg 79 · 1 city · best Podgorica
- North Macedoniaavg 79 · 1 city · best Skopje
- Slovakiaavg 79 · 2 cities · best Bratislava
- Serbiaavg 79 · 4 cities · best Niš
- Bulgariaavg 78 · 4 cities · best Varna
- Portugalavg 78 · 6 cities · best Porto
- Moldovaavg 78 · 1 city · best Chișinău
- Bosnia and Herzegovinaavg 78 · 1 city · best Sarajevo
- Estoniaavg 78 · 1 city · best Tallinn
- Lithuaniaavg 75 · 3 cities · best Kaunas
- Latviaavg 69 · 1 city · best Riga
- Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)avg 67 · 2 cities · best Prizren
- Russiaavg 62 · 132 cities · best Saint Petersburg
- Ukraineavg 56 · 37 cities · best Chernivtsi
Averages are unweighted means of the ranked cities in each country, so a country with one large city and a country with fifty are treated alike.