Cities similar to Chiang Mai

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

Grodno is the closest match, 14.0 percentile points from Chiang Mai across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on women aged 20–39, cost of living and clean air. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 18.5 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 1 of the 10 is also in Thailand; the other 9 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Chiang Mai 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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GrodnoBelarus14.010women aged 20–39, cost of living, clean air
Da NangVietnam14.110cost of living, clean air, safety
DenpasarIndonesia17.110safety
Siem ReapCambodia17.410cost of living, green space
BangkokThailand17.510places to eat, local salary, clean air
Can ThoVietnam17.610safety, universities
Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina17.910city-centre rent, clean air, salary against local costs
George TownMalaysia17.910cost of living, city-centre rent, safety
PristinaKosovo18.310salary against local costs, clean air, universities
SkopjeNorth Macedonia18.510salary against local costs, clean air, green space

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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