// CITY_ASSESSMENT
How smart is Berlin?
Berlin scores 55.7% against the UN ISO-aligned smart city framework in 2026 — ranked #141 of 386 cities assessed, with every finding traceable to a public source.
Smart score
55.7%
Rank
#141 / 386
Criteria present
41 / 86
Evidence coverage
62.8%
Berlin's smart city score by area
7 present · 1 partial · 0 absent · 7 not assessed
6 present · 3 partial · 1 absent · 2 not assessed
9 present · 3 partial · 0 absent · 1 not assessed
0 present · 1 partial · 0 absent · 10 not assessed
7 present · 3 partial · 1 absent · 2 not assessed
5 present · 0 partial · 0 absent · 3 not assessed
7 present · 2 partial · 0 absent · 5 not assessed
Where Berlin is strong
- ▸Open Data & Transparency
- ▸Air Quality & Monitoring
- ▸Green Space & Biodiversity
- ▸Education & Digital Skills
- ▸Culture, Tourism & Recreation
Where the gaps are
- ▸Housing & Urban Planning
- ▸Connectivity & ICT Infrastructure
- ▸Public Safety & Emergency
- ▸Urban Data Platform & Digital Twin
- ▸Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Evidence highlights
Open Data & Transparency · Official open data portal
The "Daten | ODIS" website, funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery, functions as an official open data portal for Berlin, listing various datasets related to districts, buildings, and traffic.
https://daten.odis-berlin.de/Open Data & Transparency · Clear open licensing
Datasets on the Berlin Open Data portal explicitly state their licenses, with examples including 'cc-zero' and 'cc-by'.
https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetzeOpen Data & Transparency · High-value datasets published
Berlin publishes high-value datasets such as tax revenues (budget), energy consumption of buildings (environment), and traffic cells (transport), available in various machine-readable formats like CSV, XLSX, XML, HTML, JSON, and TTL.
https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetzeOpen Data & Transparency · Programmatic API access
The Berlin data portal provides programmatic access to its datasets, indicated by the option to "Open dataset in WFS-Explorer" for various geographical and traffic-related data.
https://daten.odis-berlin.de/About this assessment
Berlin was assessed against the 86 criteria of the UN ISO-aligned smart city framework on 2026-07-12 by AI agents gathering evidence from official public sources. Each criterion is marked present, partial or absent, and every finding links to where it was found. Scores refresh continuously as cities publish new evidence.