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Car-Free City Centers
2026Cities ranked by the share of citizens never or rarely traveling to the city center by their own car.
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2
3
4
5
Czechia
Czechia
Czechia
Czechia
Bulgaria
Pilsen
Prague
Brno
Olomouc
Sofia
180 K
1.4 M
385 K
100 K
1.2 M
73%
62%
51%
50%
50%
5/62
All cities
15-Minute Cities
2026Share of citizens who can reach most of their destinations in 15 minutes or less.
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1
2
3
4
5
Croatia
Latvia
Estonia
Croatia
Croatia
Pula
Ogre
Kohtla-Jarve
Split
Osijek
52 K
23 K
33 K
161 K
96 K
60%
60%
56%
50%
50%
5/62
All cities
15-Minute Cities
2025Share of citizens who can reach most of their destinations in 15 minutes or less.
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2
3
4
5
Croatia
Croatia
Croatia
Slovakia
Estonia
Zadar
Rijeka
Osijek
Presov
Narva
71 K
108 K
96 K
84 K
53 K
53,57%
53,33%
47,37%
47,27%
45,95%
5/53
All cities
Traffic Jams
2025Cities ranked by the share of citizens spending more than 2 hours weekly in traffic jams
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1
2
3
4
5
Romania
Romania
Romania
Romania
Romania
Timisoara
Bucharest
Craiova
Iasi
Constanta
250 K
1.7 M
234 K
271 K
283 K
75.00%
74.40%
68.75%
68.42%
67.57%
5/49
All cities
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Friendly City Index is an international database of city ratings across Central & Eastern Europe from a human perspective — measuring the real impact cities have on ordinary people's everyday lives, from mental health to personal finances.
Covering 62 cities across 11 countries, the data is collected annually and made openly available for citizens, media representatives, and city officials to explore, share, and act on.
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