Cities similar to Bogota

Ranked by how close each city sits to Bogota across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

São Paulo is the closest match, 9.9 percentile points from Bogota across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on universities, places to eat and city-centre rent. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 14.9 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. None of the 10 are in Colombia. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Bogota because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

Closest on
São PauloBrazil9.910universities, places to eat, city-centre rent
Guatemala CityGuatemala12.510clean air, salary against local costs, cost of living
Phnom PenhCambodia12.510clean air, places to eat, city-centre rent
Rio de JaneiroBrazil12.910cost of living, universities, clean air
CasablancaMorocco13.110clean air, salary against local costs, local salary
LimaPeru13.210universities, women aged 20–39, local salary
AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire13.410clean air, city-centre rent, cost of living
IstanbulTurkey13.510universities, places to eat, safety
ThessalonikiGreece14.810safety, places to eat, city-centre rent
Saint PetersburgRussia14.910universities, cost of living, places to eat

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

Put Bogota and São Paulo side by side

Both cities land on the board already pinned, next to every other city we measure. Free, no sign-in.

Compare Bogota with São Paulo

Data updated