Photo Credit: Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau

PeopleForBikes’ annual City Ratings is a data-driven program to identify, evaluate, and compare the best cities and towns for bicycling in the U.S. and across the world. Based on data from PeopleForBikes’ Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA), each city receives a City Ratings score on a scale of 0-100. 

High-scoring cities often perform well across six factors captured in the acronym SPRINT: safe speeds, protected bike lanes, reallocated space for biking and walking, intersection treatments, network connections, and trusted data.

For 2024, we ranked more than 2,500 cities worldwide, including 816 new U.S. cities and 133 new cities across the U.K. and Australia.

SEE HOW YOUR CITY SCORES

2024’s Best Cities for Bicycling

Small Cities (<50,000 population)

1. Mackinac Island, Michigan: 99
2. Provincetown, Massachusetts: 96
3. Harbor Springs, Michigan: 92
4. Springdale, Utah: 89
5. Washburn, Wisconsin: 89
6. Fort Yates, North Dakota: 88
7. Crested Butte, Colorado: 87
8. Blue Diamond, Nevada: 85
9. Murdock, Nebraska: 84
10. Sewanee, Tennessee: 83
    

Medium Cities (50,000-300,000 population)

1. Davis, California: 78
2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 72
3. Berkeley, California: 71
4. Boulder, Colorado: 70
5. Corvallis, Oregon: 70
6. Ankeny, Iowa: 70
7. Ames, Iowa: 66
8. Anchorage, Alaska: 64
9. Hoboken, New Jersey: 62
10. Grand Forks, North Dakota: 61
    

Large Cities (>300,000 population)

1. Minneapolis, Minnesota: 71
2. Seattle, Washington: 65
3. San Francisco, California: 64
4. St. Paul, Minnesota: 61
5. Portland, Oregon: 59
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 58
7. New York City, New York: 56
8. Washington, D.C.: 46
9. Denver, Colorado: 46
10. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 46

International Cities

1. The Hague, Netherlands: 89
2. Brussels, Belgium: 87
3. Paris, France: 87
4. Lyon, France: 86
5. Utrecht, Netherlands: 86
6. Leuven, Belgium: 85
7. Munich, Germany: 85
8. Amsterdam, Netherlands: 85
9. Almere, Netherlands: 85
10. Eindhoven, Netherlands: 85