| # | City | Typical speed | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Singapore | 200+ Mbps | 8.6/10 |
| 02 | Lisbon | 100+ Mbps fiber | 8.5/10 |
| 03 | Amsterdam | 100+ Mbps | 8.4/10 |
| 04 | Barcelona | 100+ Mbps | 8.3/10 |
| 05 | Mexico City | 30-80 Mbps | 8.3/10 |
| 06 | Vienna | 80-200 Mbps | 8.3/10 |
| 07 | Prague | 50-100 Mbps | 8.2/10 |
| 08 | Tokyo | 100-1000 Mbps | 8.1/10 |
| 09 | Valencia | 100+ Mbps | 8.1/10 |
| 10 | Berlin | 60-100 Mbps | 8.0/10 |
| 11 | Chiang Mai | 50-100 Mbps | 8.0/10 |
| 12 | Porto | 100+ Mbps fiber | 8.0/10 |
RANKING · METHOD ON FILE
Best cities for fast internet
Why this table exists
METHODA ranking that is easy to skip and never should be: for a remote worker, the real estate your business runs on is bandwidth and latency, and the difference between a fibre city and a best-effort one shows up as dropped calls and mid-meeting silence — the least dramatic and most expensive failure mode in remote work. This table lists the cities where that problem mostly does not exist.
How to read it
METHODThe speeds are typical plan ranges in megabits per second for a fixed connection, not single laboratory numbers, so the column reads as bands: 200+ Mbps is the Singapore/Tokyo class, 100+ is the modern European fibre band, 30–80 is 'works fine for calls, thinner for heavy uploads'. Two caveats matter: the band is the plan, not the promise — building age and router quality decide what you actually get — and for video calls, latency and route quality often matter more than the headline number, which is why the timezone tool and this table are designed to be read together.
Top of the table, explained
NOTESSingapore and Tokyo lead the table (200+ Mbps) largely because both cities treat connectivity as infrastructure in the same way they treat the metro — which is also why their visas and costs are what they are; nothing is free. The European fibre band — Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Valencia, Porto — delivers 100 Mbps-plus at a fraction of that price, which is the pragmatic answer for most remote workers: 'good enough' is now genuinely excellent. Mexico City's 30–80 Mbps band at 8.3 score is the table's reminder that plan speed and city score are different questions: a US-timezone team works fine on 50 Mbps.
Common questions
FAQDo I need 200 Mbps to be a remote worker?
No — 30–50 Mbps is genuinely enough for video calls, cloud work and HD streaming, which is why Mexico City and Prague (50–100) sit on this table at all. The places that hurt are the ones with slow uploads or unstable routes, which are precisely the numbers a speedtest before signing a lease will show you.
Why is the table about speed rather than latency?
Speed is the comparable public number; latency is route-specific and varies by provider and date. The practical proxy we give clients: test the route to your actual team's region before committing — a fast city with a bad route to your employer's continent is worse than a medium city on a good one.
Does the ranking include mobile data or only fixed broadband?
Fixed broadband only, which is deliberate: mobile plans are cheap everywhere in this dataset, and a phone tether is a week-one bridge, not a living plan. If a city's dossier mentions a specific fibre reality, the country file says so.
Reviewed by Mgr. Nicolas Griss · ExpatTools advisory team · 6 September 2026.
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