Ranking

Best for nightlife

The depth, variety and character of going out: bars, clubs, how late and how lively. Live music has its own category. Berlin and New York set the top; quiet villages such as Bled sit at the foot.

All 305 cities we cover, ranked on nightlife. Every score is our editorial verdict, placed against the same fixed benchmark cities, so it means the same thing on every page. How the scores are built.