The greatest 100 cities on the planet ranked – and it is London that is No.1

The world’s greatest cities for 2024 have been revealed and it is London that is primary adopted by Paris and New York.

That’s in line with an annual report by Resonance Consultancy, which ranks the highest 100 from 270-plus cities with populations of a couple of million.

The outcomes are primarily based on scores throughout three key classes – liveability, lovability and prosperity, with dozens of things taken under consideration. These embrace academic attainment, GDP per capita, poverty price, the variety of high quality eating places, outlets and nightclubs; walkability, the variety of mapped bike routes, high quality parks and museums; and the variety of suggestions on websites comparable to Tripadvisor, Google, Facebook and Instagram.

The prime ten chart options 4 cities on the Asian continent, 4 in Europe and two within the U.S. Scroll down for the total 100 – the place does your favorite metropolis rank?

10. Seoul, South Korea

Seoul has ‘firmly established itself as a world popular culture powerhouse’ in line with the report, which scores the town – ‘the land of kimchi, Ok-pop, Ok-dramas and Ok-beauty’ – in tenth place.

It attracts consideration to the South Korean capital’s speedy transformation from a ‘war-ravaged metropolis to a high-tech hub’ with its general rating boosted by its low poverty price, excessive variety of Global 500 corporations, and a rising start-up ecosystem.

‘All that innovation is sated by the 176 Michelin-rated venues which have earned Seoul a No.3 rating in our eating places subcategory,’ the report provides.

9. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam comes ninth and scores effectively for liveability after ‘taking again its streets’ and reigning in its ‘typically out-of-control nightlife’.

So says the report, which lists current efforts to unravel ‘long-time native complaints’, from shifting its well-known pink gentle district from the centre to a suburban ‘Erotic Center’ to banning non-residents from hashish cafes and discouraging excursions ‘that glorify the town’s baser aspect’.

The Dutch capital scores extremely particularly for its biking, museums, procuring, nightlife, and lively workforce.

8. Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona ‘threads the needle as one of many world’s rarest cities that ranks prime ten in each liveability and lovability’, the report says.

This is partly due to its ‘iconic’ parks’ and ‘placing structure’ in addition to boasting miles of ‘golden sandy seashores’ and ‘near-perfect climate year-round’.

Like Amsterdam, the town is ‘welcoming the world by itself phrases’, in line with the report, which provides a nod in direction of the brand new bike lanes, quieter roads, ‘strict’ trip rental guidelines and improved group areas.

7. San Francisco, U.S

Job alternatives ‘pave the way in which’ for San Francisco, recognised within the report because the world’s greatest place for start-up innovation, with excessive salaries and a big, educated workforce.

The metropolis’s format additionally scores huge factors, amid plans to construct the ‘most daring’ bike and pedestrian community in America with 464 miles (747km) of protected cycle paths and new car-free streets.

Further reward goes to its new public areas, from a floating rooftop backyard on prime of a 70ft- (21m) tall constructing to a 14-acre park constructed above a freeway tunnel.

6. Dubai, UAE

Dubai ‘continues its epic ascent on the world stage’ as a spot that is ‘lavish, luxurious and full of life in equal measure’.

These are the phrases used within the report to explain this metropolis, which is ‘famed for outlandish developments’ such because the world’s tallest constructing, the Burj Khalifa.

It may not come as a shock to be taught it scores extremely for its lodges, landmarks and points of interest – ‘endless malls, aquariums, indoor ski parks, dancing fountains, and fantasy theme parks’, to call however a couple of within the report.

5. Singapore

‘Remarkable eating and procuring’ are what whets travellers’ appetites in Singapore, in line with the report.

The metropolis boasts ‘certainly one of Asia’s most fashionable, well-organised and fascinating city centres’ with ‘staggering’ retail selections from high fashion to electronics, it provides.

Its culinary scene is alleged to be boosted by the town’s common chilli crab dish and Singapore Sling cocktail. And to spherical issues off, its lodge providing consists of the 1,000-room Marina Bay Sands, which incorporates a ‘colossal rooftop infinity pool’.

4. Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, says the report, has lengthy held on to its prime spot as one of the crucial habitable metropolises on the planet.

Ranked fourth general, it takes the crown for the world’s greatest procuring helped by its ’boutique outlets’ and ‘luxurious shops’.

Despite ‘the disastrous 2021 Summer Olympics’ hosted in Tokyo, the town has gained 2,000 new lodges in consequence, the paper reveals.

And extra enhancements are on the horizon, with the growth of Haneda Airport and a deliberate quick rail hyperlink into the town, it provides.

3. New York, U.S

‘This metropolis is again’, in line with Resonance Consultancy, which hails New York for its museums, theatres and music scene, which witnessed the beginning of hip hop in 1973.

‘For those that choose their immersion open air, classics just like the High Line and Central Park are joined by the town’s latest inexperienced house, Little Island – 2.4 acres floating on the Hudson close to the Meatpacking District on the positioning of an previous pier,’ it provides.

‘Like most issues right here, you must see it to consider it.’

The report concludes: ‘The best metropolis in America is city restoration writ massive, with a dizzying roster of latest reveals, lodges and parks – and file actual property costs. But the Big Apple is at all times definitely worth the value of admission, particularly in these glory days.’

2. Paris, France

The report picks out a number of enhancements and thrilling initiatives in runner-up Paris.

There’s the soon-to-reopen Notre Dame and the close by ‘Paris Plages city seaside’; the €250million renovation of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 1 – ‘filled with the most recent tech to enhance the traveler expertise’; and a ‘flood of latest and renovated lodges’.

The report additionally praises the town for ‘codifying pedestrianism and alfresco residing’ after Covid, including: ‘To be sure that vehicles didn’t take again management of Paris streets [the mayor] legislated that the 60,000 parking spots loaned to eating places for outside seating merely remained as outside seating. The identical went for closing off lesser-driven streets solely for public strolling and seating for native companies in want of further outside house.’

The examine additionally factors to subsequent 12 months’s Olympic Games, which is able to see its Champs-Élysées ‘remodeled for the Games into a large backyard’.

1. London, UK

And the crown goes to… London, the ‘capital of capitals’ that ‘reigns over all international cities’ as one of the best metropolis on the earth, the report declares.

The examine proclaims it as probably the most habitable and probably the most lovable mecca, solidified by its successful tradition and training attainment.

What’s extra, its culinary scene ‘is being reborn’ with ‘big-name openings’ amid dozens of ‘equally daring lodges’, new metro stops and the lately opened Elizabeth Line.

The report concludes: ‘Despite crippling Covid lockdowns and financial devastation. Despite Brexit. Despite a conflict in Europe. The metropolis is extra indomitable and a part of the worldwide discourse than ever. From the Queen’s dying, to final autumn’s chaotic drama at 10 Downing Street that lastly calmed down with Rishi Sunak turning into prime minister, solely to take heavy native election losses this spring, London is never quiet lately.’