Beautiful data. Perfect fit.

Set what matters — cost to buy, cost to rent, climate, sunshine, and city size — and we rank 397 US metros to how you actually live, from real Zillow & NASA data.

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WHAT’S INSIDE

One dataset, four ways in

397 US metros scored on real data: Zillow home values & rents, and NASA temperature, precipitation & sunshine normals — every figure sourced and dated, nothing invented.

THE MATCHMAKERRank cities to your prioritiesFive sliders — cost, rent, climate, sunshine, size — and a live top-25.Open →EVERY METROBrowse all 397 citiesFilter and sort the whole dataset by any factor.Open →HEAD TO HEADCompare two citiesPut any two metros side by side, factor by factor.Open →HOW WE SCORESources & methodEvery number's source and date, and what the scores mean.Open →

MOST AFFORDABLE TO BUY

Where a home costs least

Most sun on the map

Mildest year round

Where the most people are

Scores are normalised 0–100 across all 397 metros; higher is better on each factor. Home & rent from Zillow Research; climate & sunshine from NASA POWER climatology, as of 2026-07-10. Jobs, safety, and healthcare need API keys absent in this build — not shown, not invented. A research aid, not advice. Full method →

Beautiful data. Perfect fit.

One dataset, four ways in

Where a home costs least

Johnstown, PA

Decatur, IL

Meridian, MS

Wheeling, WV

Lumberton, NC

Most sun on the map

Yuma, AZ

El Centro, CA

El Paso, TX

Phoenix, AZ

Peoria, IL

Mildest year round

New Orleans, LA

Gainesville, FL

Gainesville, GA

Mobile, AL

Daphne, AL

Where the most people are

New York, NY

Los Angeles, CA

Chicago, IL

Dallas, TX

Houston, TX