by Allan Wall
The Institute for Quality of Life, based in London, England, has released its 2025 Happy Cities Index.
It purports to list the 200 happiest cities in the world.
Mexico had one city on that list. Can you guess which city?
First off, how do they determine the happiest cities in the world?
They have a complicated system, based on six major criteria: citizens, governance, environment, economy, health, and mobility. And these six criteria, or themes as they are called, are further subdivided into sub-criteria.
If you’re interested, check out the group’s methodology page here.
Then the 200 cities are divided into gold, silver, and bronze, as are the medals in the Olympics. There are 31 gold cities, 69 silver cities, and 200 bronze cities.
In the 2025 Happiest Cities list, the #1 city was Copenhagen, Denmark, with a score of 1039. The #2 city was Zurich, Switzerland, with 993 points. Singapore was #3, Aarhus, Denmark was #4, and Antwerp, Belgium was #5.
The highest U.S. city was New York City at #17. The United States had 18 cities on the list, more than any other country, although Denmark beat the U.S. in the number of “Gold Cities”. Denmark has four Gold Cities and the U.S. has two.
Germany and Australia tied for second place with 11 cities each on the list. Belgium followed with 10 cities on the list.
The United Kingdom, Taiwan, and Poland were next, tied in total cities on the list with 9 apiece. They were followed by Italy and China with 8 cities each.
Denmark had 7 total cities on the list. Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain each had 6 cities.
Besides Mexico, the only Spanish-speaking Western Hemisphere countries were Argentina (Buenos Aires #74), Ecuador (Quito #187), and Panama (Panama City #197).
If you’re interested in perusing the list yourself, just click here. Maybe your city is on it!
And now, drum roll please, the only Mexican city on the list was – Guadalajara, at #191.
Congratulations Guadalajara!
by Allan Wall for Mexico News Report
Source: Mexico News Report
