Lagos has now been ranked as the 19th best city in the world ahead of Singapore, Miami, and Dubai, according to the latest ranking by Time Out.

Criteria for the 2024 ranking on the Time Out Index include food (both quality and affordability), culture, nightlife, how the city makes people feel, and more. The list reflects cities that are great places to visit and live.

For this year, New York City tops the list as the best city in the world, followed by Cape Town, Berlin, London, and Madrid.

Here are the top 20 best cities in the world you may want to visit in 2024:

New York City, US

Cape Town, South Africa

Berlin, Germany

London, U.K.

Madrid, Spain

Mexico City, Mexico

Liverpool, U.K.

Tokyo, Japan

Rome, Italy

Porto, Portugal

Paris, France

Mumbai, India

Lisbon, Portugal

Chicago, US

Manchester, U.K.

São Paulo, Brazil

Los Angeles, US

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lagos, Nigeria

Melbourne, Australia

Wasiu Alli is a business, economics cum data journalist with strong expertise covering macro trends, capital markets, government policies, corporate earnings and comparative economics analysis. Alli turns raw data into trends that not only tells compelling stories but nudges investors to make valued and informed decisions. He’s an alumnus of Lagos State University and trained at Lagos Business School. He formerly heads the Companies and Markets desk at BusinessDay where he writes and supervises the production of well researched articles on earnings updates, corporate sectoral comparisons, market intelligence as well as interviews with C-suite executives.

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