Smart city rankings
Smart City Rankings 2026
387 cities scored against 86 evidence-based criteria from the ISO 37120-series aligned smart city framework: what each city verifiably has, not how it markets itself. Every score links to its public sources. Cities are re-assessed in runs, not continuously, and each row says when.
Average evidenced score 61.7% across 72 countries · latest run finished 24 Oct 2026
The evidenced score, weighted by how many people the city serves on a log scale, out of 100: a city of 50 million would keep its whole score, 5 million keep 87% of it, 500,000 keep 74%. A big city that delivers outranks a small one; a tiny boundary cannot win on size.
Smart cities by country
Browse the ranked smart cities of each of the 72 countries assessed.
How these smart city rankings work
Unlike perception-based rankings, these rankings check what each city verifiably has: live transport data, air-quality monitoring, open data services, digital government and more. AI agents gather the evidence from official public sources, and each of the 86 criteria is marked present, partial or absent, so any score can be checked, and any city can be ranked, not just the famous few. Read more about how to measure a smart city.
The list is ranked by smart reach by default: the evidenced score, weighted by how many people a city serves on a log scale out of 100 (a city of 50 million would keep its whole score, one of 5 million 87% of it, one of 500,000 74%), so a large city that delivers is not outranked by a small town on a similar score. Rank instead per person, per km² of land, or on the evidence alone. Per person and per km² reward a tightly drawn boundary, which is why they are not the default.