Leaderboard
Best cities for city vibe
Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by its City Vibe score. How much the city is talked about and searched for — news and search attention.
- Cities ranked
- 134
- Top score
- 93
- Average
- 49
Pillar scores are national percentile ranks on a saturation curve, so the leader of every category lands near the same ceiling — the ranks beneath are still distinct. See how scoring works →
Billings (93) leads, ahead of Birmingham (92) and Nashville (92). Telluride anchors the bottom at 0 — a 93-point gap.
Regional read The top 10 spans 8 different states — no single state dominates this board.
All 134 cities, coloured by city vibe score band. The top-ranked cities draw larger.
- Quiet
- Some Fun
- Fun
- Very Fun
- Exceptional
Score spread across all 134 cities
- Quiet 40
- Some Fun 26
- Fun 27
- Very Fun 21
- Exceptional 20
Ranked 5–134
- T#5 91 Las Vegas, NV
- T#5 91 San Jose, CA
- T#5 91 Pittsburgh, PA
- T#8 90 Houston, TX
- T#8 90 Phoenix, AZ
- T#8 90 Dallas, TX
- T#11 89 Louisville, KY
- T#11 89 Charleston, WV
- T#13 88 Mesa, AZ
- T#13 88 Buffalo, NY
- T#13 88 Philadelphia, PA
- T#16 87 Boston, MA
- T#16 87 Indianapolis, IN
- T#18 86 San Francisco, CA
- T#18 86 Lexington, KY
- #20 85 Milwaukee, WI
- T#21 84 Lincoln, NE
- T#21 84 Richmond, VA
- T#23 83 Providence, RI
- T#23 83 Savannah, GA
- #25 82 New York, NY
- #26 81 Chesapeake, VA
- T#27 80 Atlanta, GA
- T#27 80 St. Louis, MO
- #29 79 Jacksonville, FL
- #30 78 Los Angeles, CA
- T#31 77 Henderson, NV
- T#31 77 Cincinnati, OH
- #33 76 Denver, CO
- #34 75 Miami, FL
- T#35 74 Spokane, WA
- T#35 74 Arlington, TX
- #37 73 San Antonio, TX
- #38 72 Seattle, WA
- T#39 71 Orlando, FL
- T#39 71 Long Beach, CA
- #41 70 Reno, NV
- #42 69 Des Moines, IA
- T#43 68 Detroit, MI
- T#43 68 Greensboro, NC
- #45 67 Montgomery, AL
- #46 66 Fresno, CA
- T#47 65 Tucson, AZ
- T#47 65 Bend, OR
- #49 64 Baltimore, MD
- #50 63 Hartford, CT
- T#51 62 Madison, WI
- T#51 62 Tampa, FL
- #53 61 Cleveland, OH
- #54 60 Fort Worth, TX
- T#55 59 San Diego, CA
- T#55 59 Durham, NC
- #57 58 Tulsa, OK
- #58 57 Sioux Falls, SD
- T#59 56 Raleigh, NC
- T#59 56 Chicago, IL
- #61 55 Napa, CA
- #62 54 Toledo, OH
- T#63 53 Little Rock, AR
- T#63 53 Irvine, CA
- #65 52 Laredo, TX
- #66 51 Fremont, CA
- T#67 50 Plano, TX
- T#67 50 Washington, DC
- #69 49 Chandler, AZ
- #70 48 Columbus, OH
- T#71 47 Sacramento, CA
- T#71 47 Manchester, NH
- #73 46 Omaha, NE
- #74 45 El Paso, TX
- T#75 44 Charleston, SC
- T#75 44 Virginia Beach, VA
- #77 43 Riverside, CA
- #78 42 Portland, ME
- T#79 41 Austin, TX
- T#79 41 Aurora, CO
- #81 40 Memphis, TN
- #82 39 Sedona, AZ
- T#83 38 Charlotte, NC
- T#83 38 Jersey City, NJ
- #85 37 Kansas City, MO
- #86 36 Bakersfield, CA
- T#87 35 Santa Clarita, CA
- T#87 35 Lubbock, TX
- #89 34 Burlington, VT
- #90 33 Bismarck, ND
- T#91 32 Minneapolis, MN
- T#91 32 Colorado Springs, CO
- #93 31 Wilmington, DE
- #94 30 Baton Rouge, LA
- T#95 29 New Orleans, LA
- T#95 29 Anchorage, AK
- #97 28 Wichita, KS
- #98 27 Oklahoma City, OK
- T#99 26 Anaheim, CA
- T#99 26 Oakland, CA
- #101 25 Winston-Salem, NC
- #102 24 Irving, TX
- T#103 23 Corpus Christi, TX
- T#103 23 Asheville, NC
- #105 22 Albuquerque, NM
- #106 21 Gilbert, AZ
- T#107 20 Glendale, AZ
- T#107 20 Jackson, MS
- #109 19 Newark, NJ
- #110 18 Portland, OR
- T#111 17 Boise, ID
- T#111 17 Santa Ana, CA
- #113 16 Stockton, CA
- #114 15 Norfolk, VA
- T#115 14 Honolulu, HI
- T#115 14 St. Petersburg, FL
- #117 13 Fargo, ND
- #118 12 Saint Paul, MN
- T#119 11 Fort Wayne, IN
- T#119 11 Garland, TX
- #121 10 Bridgeport, CT
- #122 9 Santa Fe, NM
- T#123 8 Hialeah, FL
- T#123 8 Boulder, CO
- #125 7 Santa Barbara, CA
- #126 6 North Las Vegas, NV
- T#127 5 Key West, FL
- T#127 5 Park City, UT
- #129 4 Gatlinburg, TN
- #130 3 Hilton Head Island, SC
- T#131 2 Jackson, WY
- T#131 2 Aspen, CO
- #133 1 Stowe, VT
- #134 0 Telluride, CO
1 of 134 cities has no city vibe measurement, so it sits at the median (50) as a placeholder — flagged above and not a measured rank. The composite Fun Score renormalises around the gap, so it is unaffected.
City Vibe is measured from GDELT news tone and Google Trends search interest (each percentile-ranked, then averaged).