CityFunIndex

The Fun Score™

How much fun is every city in America?

One 0–100 score per city, built from food, drinks, live music, the outdoors, events, climate and more. Find out where the fun is.

Search any city, or explore the rankings below.

Every score is measured, not guessed. Built from real data — federal, state and city open datasets, public APIs and licensed commercial feeds. All 23 factors are currently live, none deferred. See the methodology.

Cities scored
134
States covered
50 + DC
Factors per city
23 all live
Top Fun Score
100

Across 134 cities, Portland (ME) shares the top score of 100 with 1 other city, Charlotte (NC) sits near the middle at 54, and Garland (TX) sits at the calm end alongside 1 other city at 0.

Want the underlying data? Every Fun Score and all 23 factor scores ship through the licensed CityFunIndex API.

134 US cities today — and growing

Every city is measured the same way, so the more cities on one scale, the more useful the index becomes. Next: 200+ US cities, then cities around the world, and ultimately thousands of cities in one database.

  1. Live now 134 US cities
  2. Next 200+ US cities
  3. On the roadmap Cities around the world
  4. Where we're headed Thousands of cities

See the full coverage roadmap →

The Fun Score in three steps

Every city is measured the same way — here is how one number comes together.

  1. Measure 23 factors

    We gather data on what shapes a city’s fun — food, live music, the outdoors, events and climate — and the friction that wears it down, from crime to traffic.

  2. Rank every city

    Raw numbers are not comparable, so each factor becomes a percentile: how this city stacks up against every other on that one thing.

  3. Blend into one score

    The 23 factors combine by weight into a single, calibrated 0–100 Fun Score — simple on the surface, transparent underneath.

See the full methodology → How this differs from Walk Score, AreaVibes & Niche →

How America’s cities stack up

Every one of the 134 cities scored so far lands in one of five bands — from 0 at the quiet end to 100 at the exceptional end.

Top of the Fun Index

The highest Fun Scores across the 134 cities measured so far.

Regional read The top 50 spans 34 different states — no single state dominates the leaderboard.

  1. 100 One of America’s 2 most fun cities Portland, ME Exceptional · tied for #1 of 134 cities (2-way tie at 100) See the full Fun Score →
  2. T#1 100 Seattle, WA Exceptional
  3. #3 98 Boston, MA Exceptional
  4. #4 97 Madison, WI Exceptional
  5. #5 96 San Francisco, CA Exceptional
  6. #6 94 Pittsburgh, PA Exceptional
  7. #7 93 Washington, DC Exceptional
  8. #8 92 Cincinnati, OH Exceptional
  9. #9 91 Richmond, VA Exceptional
  10. #10 88 Atlanta, GA Exceptional
  11. T#11 87 Charleston, SC Exceptional
  12. T#11 87 Jackson, WY Exceptional
  13. #13 86 Honolulu, HI Exceptional

See all 134 cities on the map →

Find your kind of fun

See which cities lead on the things you care about — from live music to the great outdoors.

Or somewhere calm and easy

The safest cities, the lightest traffic, the cleanest air and the most affordable places in the index.

Put the Fun Score to work

The whole index is open — embed it, build on it, license it for your own product, or have it read for you.

The CityFunIndex API Every Fun Score and all 23 factors as clean JSON — three endpoints, no key required. Plus a drop-in badge for any city. For real estate & platforms Embed the Fun Score badge free, or license the full dataset — built for listing sites, brokerages, relocation tools and research. Read for you — the AI City Report A written, sourced dossier for any city, generated from the 23-factor data. Plus “Find My City” from a plain-English description and multi-city relocation briefs. Pro plan, $12/mo — coming soon.