Leaderboard
Best cities for drinks
Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by its Drinks score. Bars, breweries, cocktail rooms and the nightlife spread.
- 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 →
Stowe (93) leads, ahead of Gatlinburg (92) and Park City (92). Hialeah anchors the bottom at 0 — a 93-point gap.
Regional read The top 10 spans 10 different states — no single state dominates this board.
All 134 cities, coloured by drinks 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 Portland, OR
- T#5 91 Asheville, NC
- T#5 91 Portland, ME
- T#8 90 Aspen, CO
- T#8 90 Seattle, WA
- T#8 90 Cleveland, OH
- T#11 89 Burlington, VT
- T#11 89 New Orleans, LA
- T#13 88 San Francisco, CA
- T#13 88 Bend, OR
- T#13 88 Denver, CO
- T#16 87 Milwaukee, WI
- T#16 87 Charleston, SC
- T#18 86 St. Louis, MO
- T#18 86 Washington, DC
- #20 85 Pittsburgh, PA
- T#21 84 Madison, WI
- T#21 84 Cincinnati, OH
- T#23 83 Baltimore, MD
- T#23 83 Savannah, GA
- #25 82 Chicago, IL
- #26 81 Reno, NV
- T#27 80 Minneapolis, MN
- T#27 80 Santa Barbara, CA
- #29 79 Buffalo, NY
- #30 78 Des Moines, IA
- T#31 77 Santa Fe, NM
- T#31 77 Austin, TX
- #33 76 Billings, MT
- #34 75 Telluride, CO
- T#35 74 Atlanta, GA
- T#35 74 Jackson, WY
- #37 73 Boulder, CO
- #38 72 Spokane, WA
- T#39 71 Manchester, NH
- T#39 71 Kansas City, MO
- #41 70 Orlando, FL
- #42 69 Tulsa, OK
- T#43 68 Sedona, AZ
- T#43 68 St. Petersburg, FL
- #45 67 Richmond, VA
- #46 66 San Diego, CA
- T#47 65 Honolulu, HI
- T#47 65 Oakland, CA
- #49 64 Nashville, TN
- #50 63 Boston, MA
- T#51 62 Colorado Springs, CO
- T#51 62 New York, NY
- #53 61 Omaha, NE
- #54 60 Greensboro, NC
- T#55 59 Hilton Head Island, SC
- T#55 59 Detroit, MI
- #57 58 Tampa, FL
- #58 57 Saint Paul, MN
- T#59 56 Fargo, ND
- T#59 56 Charleston, WV
- #61 55 Columbus, OH
- #62 54 Raleigh, NC
- T#63 53 Providence, RI
- T#63 53 Louisville, KY
- #65 52 Charlotte, NC
- #66 51 Lincoln, NE
- T#67 50 Scottsdale, AZ
- T#67 50 Philadelphia, PA
- #69 49 Albuquerque, NM
- #70 48 Lexington, KY
- T#71 47 Anchorage, AK
- T#71 47 Bismarck, ND
- #73 46 Boise, ID
- #74 45 Dallas, TX
- T#75 44 Lubbock, TX
- T#75 44 Las Vegas, NV
- #77 43 Toledo, OH
- #78 42 Durham, NC
- T#79 41 Norfolk, VA
- T#79 41 Indianapolis, IN
- #81 40 Houston, TX
- #82 39 Fort Wayne, IN
- T#83 38 Miami, FL
- T#83 38 Sacramento, CA
- #85 37 Long Beach, CA
- #86 36 Oklahoma City, OK
- T#87 35 Baton Rouge, LA
- T#87 35 Sioux Falls, SD
- #89 34 Phoenix, AZ
- #90 33 Aurora, CO
- T#91 32 Chandler, AZ
- T#91 32 Henderson, NV
- #93 31 Tucson, AZ
- #94 30 San Jose, CA
- T#95 29 Hartford, CT
- T#95 29 Birmingham, AL
- #97 28 Anaheim, CA
- #98 27 Bridgeport, CT
- T#99 26 San Antonio, TX
- T#99 26 Little Rock, AR
- #101 25 Fort Worth, TX
- #102 24 Jersey City, NJ
- T#103 23 Mesa, AZ
- T#103 23 Gilbert, AZ
- #105 22 Napa, CA
- #106 21 Newark, NJ
- T#107 20 Los Angeles, CA
- T#107 20 Memphis, TN
- #109 19 Winston-Salem, NC
- #110 18 Virginia Beach, VA
- T#111 17 Wichita, KS
- T#111 17 El Paso, TX
- #113 16 Corpus Christi, TX
- #114 15 Jacksonville, FL
- T#115 14 Wilmington, DE
- T#115 14 Glendale, AZ
- #117 13 Chesapeake, VA
- #118 12 Laredo, TX
- T#119 11 Riverside, CA
- T#119 11 Fresno, CA
- #121 10 Montgomery, AL
- #122 9 Plano, TX
- T#123 8 Arlington, TX
- T#123 8 Santa Ana, CA
- #125 7 Fremont, CA
- #126 6 North Las Vegas, NV
- T#127 5 Jackson, MS
- T#127 5 Stockton, CA
- #129 4 Irvine, CA
- #130 3 Irving, TX
- T#131 2 Santa Clarita, CA
- T#131 2 Garland, TX
- #133 1 Bakersfield, CA
- #134 0 Hialeah, FL
Drinks is measured from OpenStreetMap bars, pubs, nightclubs and craft breweries/distilleries, with Google Places ratings adjusting for venue quality.