NYC Was Ranked The 2nd Best City In The World For 2025
International consultant group, Resonance, has just released their World’s Best Cities for 2025 and it’s good news for NYC! After two consecutive years of standing in the shadows of London and Paris, NYC has moved up in the ranks as the second best city in the world for 2025. Of course, NYC will always remain #1 in our hearts, but we’ll take this year’s improvement as a win!
Resonance takes a look at statistics across 400 global cities and combines those with resident and visitor perceptions to finalize its ranking. To simplify this methodology, the data is interpreted through three major lenses: livability (price-to-income ratio, bike-friendly, rent), lovability (nightlife, restaurants, museums), prosperity (educational attainment, labor force participation, airport connectivity).
NYC’s key rankings for 2025 include placing #2 for Business Ecosystem and Culture. The ranking recognized NYC’s “indomitable spirit” after an incredible comeback from the pandemic. Not only has rent skyrocketed (a sign of great demand for living in NYC), but tourism levels reached a near-record high with around 65 million visitors in 2024, with 2025 expected to be the busiest tourism year in NYC history.
Significant improvements to NYC airports and the city’s rail transit network, along with expansions to world-renowned cultural institutions, like the re-opening of The Bronx Children’s Museum, only adds to what the ranking deems as “the city’s renaissance.”
“New York City, the perpetual heartbeat of America, may trail London, but it passes Paris in our rankings this year and comes out on top among U.S. cities,” echoes the official ranking. That being said, London has still managed to swindle its way to supremacy, ranking #1 in seven of the 28 key rankings, from airport connectivity to nightlife. As of this year, London has ranked as the world’s best city for 10 years in a row.
Paris, though an immensely popular destination in 2024 for the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, has dropped to third place for the World’s Best Cities for 2025. Following shortly behind is Tokyo in fourth place, and Singapore rounding out the top five.
You can find the full ranking and more about the methodology online.
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