Cities similar to Warsaw

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

Kraków is the closest match, 5.8 percentile points from Warsaw across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on safety, salary against local costs and local salary. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 18.3 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 4 of the 10 are also in Poland; the other 6 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Warsaw 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.

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KrakówPoland5.810safety, salary against local costs, local salary
WrocławPoland8.210salary against local costs, safety, green space
ZagrebCroatia10.110clean air, local salary, salary against local costs
PoznańPoland11.710salary against local costs, safety, local salary
MoscowRussia11.810universities, salary against local costs, green space
GdańskPoland14.810salary against local costs, cost of living, local salary
PragueCzechia16.210city-centre rent, safety, cost of living
BucharestRomania17.010salary against local costs, clean air, places to eat
Taipei CityTaiwan17.910clean air, places to eat, universities
Cluj-NapocaRomania18.310women aged 20–39, safety, universities

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.

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