Quality of life of LGBTQ people in European cities

The cities in Europe where survey respondents most commonly indicated that they were a good place to live for gay and lesbian people were Rekjavik,Valletta and Groningen in 2023. In general, the cities which ranked as the best place to live for lesbian and gay people in Europe were in Nordic countries (Norway, Iceland, Copenhagen, Sweden, Finland), western European countries (Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands), and southern European countries (Italy, Malta, Spain).

The five cities with the fewest respondents indicating that they were a good place to live were all in south-eastern Europe, with the bottom two both coming from Turkey (Diyarbakir) and Albania (Tirania). Turkey tends to rank so lowly due to the influence of traditionalist and religious social norms, which do not recognize LGBTQ relationships as being on a par as heterosexual relationships and lead to more commonly held homophobic views.

Is the city where you live a good place or not a good place to live for gay and lesbian people?

Characteristic	A good place to live	Not a good place to live	Don't know/No Answer/Refuses
Reykjavík	89.4%	5.04%	5.56%
Valletta	87.87%	8.2%	3.93%
Groningen	86.93%	6.47%	6.6%
Zurich	86.89%	3.97%	9.14%
København	86.37%	5.52%	8.11%
Málaga	85.93%	8.82%	5.25%
Luxembourg	85.5%	8.39%	6.11%
Bologna	85.29%	9.15%	10.59%
Oslo	85.14%	7.19%	7.67%
Hamburg	84.78%	8.32%	6.9%
Barcelona	84.19%	10.17%	5.64%
Lisboa	83.56%	8.02%	8.41%
Oviedo	82.93%	12.94%	4.13%
Glasgow	82.8%	0.91%	16.29%
Stockholm	82.56%	6.9%	10.55%
Munich	82.23%	6.01%	11.77%
Madrid	81.97%	8.14%	9.89%
Amsterdam	80.83%	12.37%	6.8%
Berlin	80.54%	10.66%	8.8%
Helsinki / Helsingfors	80.46%	8.86%	10.68%
Dublin	80.25%	9.15%	10.59%
Oulu / Uleåborg	79.73%	7.29%	12.98%
Braga	76.99%	13.84%	9.17%
Praha	76.64%	7.42%	17.94%
Gdansk	76.62%	13.03%	10.35%
Cardiff	76.5%	5.84%	17.66%
Rennes	76.23%	8.99%	14.79%
Wien	75.5%	16.91%	7.59%
Rostock	74.41%	8.65%	16.94%
Graz	74.13%	12.8%	13.07%
Newcastle	73.76%	4.44%	21.8%
Bordeaux	73.55%	7.29%	19.16%
Turin	73.33%	14.98%	11.7%
Aalborg	72.06%	8.49%	19.45%
Genève	71.84%	6.82%	21.33%
Essen	71.59%	10.84%	17.58%
Leipzig	70.4%	7.88%	21.72%
Manchester	70.22%	11.54%	18.24%
Antwerpen	69.56%	8.33%	22.1%
Kraków	68.81%	18.84%	12.35%
Rotterdam	68.38%	15.49%	16.14%
Rome	67.53%	22.25%	10.22%
Malmö	67.37%	16.11%	16.51%
Strasbourg	67.04%	14.07%	18.89%
Dortmund	66.83%	12.32%	20.85%
Paris	66.36%	17.03%	16.61%
Palermo	65.51%	26.97%	7.52%
Ostrava	65.49%	8.33%	26.18%
London	65.16%	13.37%	21.47%
Bruxelles / Brussel	65.04%	18.03%	16.93%
Lille	63.89%	21.81%	14.29%
Belfast	63.09%	19.18%	17.73%
Warszawa	62.84%	25.18%	11.98%
Naples	62.38%	29.99%	7.63%
Athina	60.14%	25.49%	14.38%
Lefkosia	56.4%	19.61%	23.99%
Zagreb	56.32%	30.03%	13.64%
Bratislava	55.84%	21.25%	22.92%
Vilnius	54.78%	23.16%	22.06%
Liège	54.58%	12.46%	32.96%
Marseille	54.36%	20.62%	25.02%
Verona	53.56%	32.69%	13.75%
Tallinn	50.75%	25.36%	23.88%
Ljubljana	49.8%	28.42%	21.78%
Budapest	47.37%	27.27%	25.36%
Riga	46.94%	23.84%	29.22%
Košice	45.84%	26.37%	27.79%
Bucharest	45.55%	30.13%	24.32%
Sofia	45.44%	32.48%	22.08%
Cluj-Napoca	43.43%	31.8%	24.77%
Burgas	43.35%	25.28%	31.38%
Antalya	43%	37.56%	19.44%
Beograd	42.57%	37.53%	19.9%
Miskolc	38.38%	25.16%	36.46%
Irakleio	33.85%	47.44%	18.7%
Bialystok	30.82%	56.39%	12.79%
Ankara	29.55%	54.02%	16.43%
Podgorica	29.41%	42.57%	29.55%
Istanbul	29.08%	57.25%	13.67%
Skopje	27.91%	45.51%	26.58%
Piatra Neamt	24.18%	45.84%	29.99%
Tirana	24.17%	59.71%	16.11%
Diyarbakir	23.56%	62.7%	13.74%