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Where could you retire abroad?
Drag the sliders to match what matters to you. The map and rankings update live — 108 destinations, with clear pros and cons on every one.
Researched, sourced, and dated — updated weekly.Monthly budget$3,000/mo
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#1 Lake Chapala (Ajijic) Mexico
84/100
$2,500/mo · eternal spring
lakesmall-towncolonial-town
#2 Coronado Panama
81/100
$3,000/mo · tropical
beachsmall-townquiet
#3 Escazú Costa Rica
80/100
$3,300/mo · eternal spring
big-citywalkablecultural
#4 Panama City Panama
80/100
$3,400/mo · tropical · over budget
big-citywalkablelively
#5 George Town (Penang) Malaysia
79/100
$2,400/mo · tropical
walkableculturalbeach
#6 Playa del Carmen Mexico
77/100
$2,800/mo · tropical
beachwalkablelively
#7 Cabo San Lucas Mexico
77/100
$4,224/mo · arid · over budget
beach-townresortdesert
#8 Mérida Mexico
76/100
$2,400/mo · tropical
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#9 San Miguel de Allende Mexico
76/100
$3,000/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#10 Puerto Vallarta Mexico
75/100
$3,200/mo · tropical
beachwalkablelively
#11 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
75/100
$2,500/mo · tropical
big-cityculturalwalkable
#12 Atenas Costa Rica
74/100
$2,700/mo · eternal spring
small-townmountaineternal-spring
#13 Boquete Panama
74/100
$2,700/mo · eternal spring
mountainsmall-towneternal-spring
#14 Bangkok Thailand
73/100
$2,873/mo · tropical
big-citylivelycultural
#15 San Ignacio Belize
73/100
$2,400/mo · tropical
small-townjunglenature
#16 Dumaguete Philippines
73/100
$1,750/mo · tropical
beachsmall-townwalkable
#17 Málaga Spain
72/100
$3,200/mo · mediterranean
beachwalkablecultural
#18 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
72/100
$2,000/mo · tropical
big-citylivelycultural
#19 Ambergris Caye (San Pedro) Belize
72/100
$3,200/mo · tropical
beachislandCaribbean
#20 Lisbon Portugal
71/100
$4,200/mo · mediterranean · over budget
big-citywalkablecultural
#21 Cascais Portugal
71/100
$4,100/mo · mediterranean · over budget
beachcoastalwalkable
#22 Funchal Portugal
70/100
$3,100/mo · eternal spring
islandwalkablemountain
#23 Chiang Mai Thailand
70/100
$2,470/mo · tropical
mountainculturalsmall-town
#24 Hua Hin Thailand
70/100
$2,371/mo · tropical
beachsmall-townquiet
#25 Grecia Costa Rica
70/100
$2,300/mo · eternal spring
small-towneternal-springwalkable
#26 Placencia Belize
70/100
$2,900/mo · tropical
beachCaribbeansmall-town
#27 Roatán Honduras
70/100
$2,500/mo · tropical
islandbeachCaribbean
#28 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain
70/100
$2,900/mo · eternal spring
beachcoastaleternal-spring
#29 Porto Portugal
69/100
$3,200/mo · mediterranean
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#30 Tamarindo Costa Rica
69/100
$4,000/mo · tropical · over budget
beachwalkablelively
#31 Todos Santos Mexico
69/100
$2,600/mo · arid
beach-townartsybohemian
#32 La Paz Mexico
68/100
$2,300/mo · arid
beachsmall-townwalkable
#33 Lagos Portugal
68/100
$3,400/mo · mediterranean · over budget
beachwalkablesmall-town
#34 Medellín Colombia
68/100
$2,790/mo · eternal spring
big-cityeternal-springmountain
#35 Phuket Thailand
68/100
$2,774/mo · tropical
beachtropical-islandlively
#36 Lima (Miraflores) Peru
68/100
$2,300/mo · arid
big-citywalkablecoastal
#37 Mexico City Mexico
67/100
$3,100/mo · eternal spring
big-cityculturalwalkable
#38 Alicante Spain
67/100
$3,100/mo · mediterranean
beachwalkablelively
#39 Prague Czechia
67/100
$3,000/mo · four seasons
big-citywalkablecultural
#40 Tavira Portugal
66/100
$3,200/mo · mediterranean
colonial-townbeachwalkable
#41 Barcelona Spain
66/100
$4,100/mo · mediterranean · over budget
big-citybeachwalkable
#42 Quito Ecuador
65/100
$2,300/mo · eternal spring
big-citycolonial-townmountain
#43 Antigua Guatemala Guatemala
65/100
$2,800/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townwalkablemountain
#44 Panajachel (Lake Atitlán) Guatemala
65/100
$1,600/mo · eternal spring
lakesmall-towneternal-spring
#45 Ubud (Bali) Indonesia
65/100
$2,773/mo · tropical
tropical-islandculturalnature
#46 Oaxaca (Oaxaca de Juárez) Mexico
64/100
$2,400/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townculturalwalkable
#47 Mazatlán Mexico
64/100
$3,000/mo · tropical
beachcolonial-townwalkable
#48 Da Nang Vietnam
64/100
$1,900/mo · tropical
beachlivelywalkable-beachfront
#49 Paphos Cyprus
64/100
$3,000/mo · mediterranean
beachmediterraneanwarm
#50 Hoi An Vietnam
64/100
$1,800/mo · tropical
small-townriversidehistoric
#51 Fethiye Turkey
64/100
$1,900/mo · mediterranean
coastalresort-townlaid-back
#52 Madrid Spain
63/100
$4,400/mo · four seasons · over budget
big-citywalkablecultural
#53 Sliema Malta
63/100
$3,800/mo · mediterranean · over budget
beachwalkablelively
#54 Split Croatia
63/100
$2,600/mo · mediterranean
beachcoastalwalkable
#55 Tulum Mexico
63/100
$3,200/mo · tropical
beach-towntropicaltrendy
#56 Cape Town South Africa
63/100
$2,754/mo · mediterranean
coastalbig-cityscenic
#57 Coimbra Portugal
63/100
$2,600/mo · mediterranean
small-townwalkablecultural
#58 Budapest Hungary
63/100
$2,737/mo · four seasons
big-citywalkablecultural
#59 Antalya Turkey
63/100
$2,100/mo · mediterranean
coastalresort-townbig-city
#60 Chania Greece
62/100
$2,800/mo · mediterranean
beachcolonial-townwalkable
#61 Bocas del Toro Panama
62/100
$2,300/mo · tropical
islandbeachCaribbean
#62 Pedasí Panama
62/100
$2,200/mo · tropical
small-townbeachlaid-back
#63 Corfu Greece
62/100
$2,300/mo · mediterranean
islandcoastalgreen
#64 Limassol Cyprus
61/100
$3,600/mo · mediterranean · over budget
coastalbig-citylively
#65 Cartagena Colombia
61/100
$2,576/mo · tropical
colonial-towncoastalwalkable
#66 Valencia Spain
60/100
$3,300/mo · mediterranean
big-citywalkablebeach
#67 Santa Marta Colombia
60/100
$2,138/mo · tropical
beachtropicallively
#68 Athens Greece
60/100
$3,300/mo · mediterranean
big-citywalkablecultural
#69 Nice France
60/100
$4,400/mo · mediterranean · over budget
beachwalkablebig-city
#70 Granada Nicaragua
60/100
$2,200/mo · tropical
colonial-townlakewalkable
#71 Nosara Costa Rica
60/100
$4,200/mo · tropical · over budget
beachsurf-townwellness
#72 Palma de Mallorca Spain
60/100
$3,900/mo · mediterranean · over budget
coastalbig-citywalkable
#73 Ponta Delgada Portugal
60/100
$2,200/mo · four seasons
small-towncoastalnature
#74 Bilbao Spain
60/100
$3,400/mo · four seasons · over budget
big-cityculturalfoodie
#75 Ljubljana Slovenia
60/100
$3,400/mo · four seasons · over budget
walkablegreenrelaxed
#76 Querétaro Mexico
59/100
$2,300/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#77 Sevilla Spain
59/100
$2,900/mo · mediterranean
big-citywalkablecultural
#78 Granada Spain
59/100
$2,300/mo · four seasons
small-townwalkablecultural
#79 Cuenca Ecuador
58/100
$2,000/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townwalkablemountain
#80 Las Terrenas Dominican Republic
58/100
$3,032/mo · tropical
beachsmall-townwalkable
#81 Palermo Italy
58/100
$2,500/mo · mediterranean
big-citycoastalcultural
#82 Thessaloniki Greece
58/100
$2,600/mo · mediterranean
big-citycoastalcultural
#83 Dubrovnik Croatia
58/100
$3,200/mo · mediterranean
coastalhistoricwalkable
#84 San Sebastián Spain
57/100
$4,300/mo · four seasons · over budget
coastalbeachcultural
#85 Bologna Italy
57/100
$3,300/mo · four seasons
big-citywalkablecultural
#86 Bordeaux France
57/100
$4,300/mo · four seasons · over budget
wine-countrywalkablecultural
#87 Vilcabamba Ecuador
57/100
$1,500/mo · eternal spring
mountainvillagerural
#88 Setúbal Portugal
56/100
$2,900/mo · mediterranean
coastalbeachworking-town
#89 Tbilisi Georgia
56/100
$1,700/mo · four seasons
big-cityculturalhistoric
#90 Florence Italy
55/100
$3,800/mo · mediterranean · over budget
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#91 Lucca Italy
55/100
$3,800/mo · mediterranean · over budget
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#92 Buenos Aires Argentina
55/100
$3,200/mo · four seasons
big-cityculturalwalkable
#93 Bari Italy
55/100
$2,500/mo · mediterranean
coastalbig-cityhistoric
#94 Pau France
55/100
$3,200/mo · four seasons
mountain-townwalkablehistoric
#95 Nafplio Greece
55/100
$2,600/mo · mediterranean
small-towncoastalwalkable
#96 Montpellier France
54/100
$3,400/mo · mediterranean · over budget
mediterraneanwalkablecultural
#97 Kotor Montenegro
54/100
$2,200/mo · mediterranean
coastalhistoricscenic
#98 Marrakech Morocco
52/100
$2,600/mo · arid
exotichistoriccultural
#99 Plovdiv Bulgaria
52/100
$1,900/mo · four seasons
culturalhistoricwalkable
#100 Puebla Mexico
51/100
$2,100/mo · eternal spring
colonial-townwalkablecultural
#101 Cagliari Italy
51/100
$2,700/mo · mediterranean
coastalbeachrelaxed
#102 Lecce Italy
50/100
$2,300/mo · mediterranean
colonial-townculturalwalkable
#103 Cusco Peru
50/100
$1,900/mo · eternal spring
mountaincolonial-townhistoric
#104 Punta del Este Uruguay
49/100
$3,773/mo · four seasons · over budget
beachupscaleresort
#105 Colonia del Sacramento Uruguay
49/100
$2,600/mo · four seasons
colonial-townsmall-townwalkable
#106 Montevideo Uruguay
47/100
$3,000/mo · four seasons
big-citywalkablecultural
#107 Mendoza Argentina
47/100
$2,400/mo · arid
wine-countrysmall-citynature
#108 Sarandë Albania
47/100
$1,900/mo · mediterranean
beachcoastalmediterranean
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