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Methodology

Mobility

How easily you get around, both across town every day and away by air when you leave.

Two kinds of getting around

Some days you just need to cross town for work or groceries. Other days you need a flight home. These are different problems, and a place can be good at one and poor at the other. You can land in a city with a huge airport and still spend an hour crossing town by bus. Mobility measures both, and always shows them side by side.

How we work it out

We score two sides of getting around, each on its own.

  • Getting around town. Walking, public transit, cycling, driving, and scooters. This is daily life: work, shops, and errands.
  • Getting away. Airports, how far their flights reach, and whether budget airlines fly there.

Each side scores 0 to 5. We average the two into one mobility score, but always show them next to each other, so a great airport never hides a hard commute.

Public transit is the part most people lean on day to day, so it gets its own page.

Where the numbers come from

The parts come from different places. Airports are built from real passenger counts, from Eurostat and OurAirports; see airport connectivity. Public transit is measured from the timetables agencies publish; see public transit. The rest of getting around town is AI-assisted, where a language model reads what is written about a city and rates it, labelled as an AI signal wherever it shows; see AI-assisted analysis.

What it can't tell you

  • One score covers two very different things. A high mobility score can come from great flights or great local transport, so check the side you'd actually use.
  • It scores a city, not your exact commute or one bus line's reliability.
  • It doesn't know fares or crowding. A well-covered network can still be pricey, or packed at rush hour.
  • We measure getting around town most accurately in dense, well-mapped cities.

See it live

Every country page has a mobility section that shows getting around town and getting away side by side, ranked city by city. On a country page we weight the cities by how many people live in them, and name the best and worst, because mobility swings more from city to city than almost anything else we measure (see how country verdicts work).

Or look at transit on the explore map.