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Best Places to Retire Abroad
Every country below has a full retirement guide: typical monthly budgets, visa requirements, healthcare quality and how a foreign pension is taxed. Not sure where to start? Run the retirement calculators to find your monthly number first.
How to choose the best place to retire
Start with your monthly budget
Use the retirement calculator to estimate your income, then compare countries you can comfortably afford.
Check visas and taxes
Review residence requirements, pension treatment and tax rules. Our retirement visa guide helps you compare options.
Compare daily life
Open each country guide for housing, food, healthcare, safety, local currency budgets and practical pros and cons.
Africa
Americas
- Retire in Antigua and BarbudaSt. John's$2,400/mo
- Retire in ArgentinaBuenos Aires$1,500/mo
- Retire in BarbadosBridgetown$2,600/mo
- Retire in BelizeSan Pedro$1,900/mo
- Retire in BoliviaSucre$1,100/mo
- Retire in BrazilFlorianรณpolis$1,800/mo
- Retire in CanadaVictoria, BC$2,800/mo
- Retire in ChileViรฑa del Mar$1,900/mo
- Retire in ColombiaMedellรญn$1,600/mo
- Retire in Costa RicaAtenas$2,100/mo
- Retire in Dominican RepublicLas Terrenas$1,700/mo
- Retire in EcuadorCuenca$1,400/mo
- Retire in GuatemalaAntigua Guatemala$1,400/mo
- Retire in JamaicaMandeville$1,700/mo
- Retire in MexicoMรฉrida$1,800/mo
- Retire in NicaraguaGranada$1,200/mo
- Retire in PanamaPanama City$2,000/mo
- Retire in ParaguayAsunciรณn$1,300/mo
- Retire in PeruArequipa$1,300/mo
- Retire in Trinidad and TobagoScarborough$1,800/mo
- Retire in UruguayMontevideo$2,000/mo
- Retire in USAAsheville, NC$3,200/mo
Asia
- Retire in AustraliaBrisbane$3,000/mo
- Retire in BhutanThimphu$1,200/mo
- Retire in BruneiBandar Seri Begawan$1,800/mo
- Retire in CambodiaSiem Reap$1,100/mo
- Retire in FijiSuva$1,600/mo
- Retire in IndiaGoa$1,000/mo
- Retire in IndonesiaBali$1,500/mo
- Retire in JapanFukuoka$2,200/mo
- Retire in KazakhstanAlmaty$1,400/mo
- Retire in LaosLuang Prabang$950/mo
- Retire in MalaysiaPenang$1,600/mo
- Retire in MaldivesMalรฉ$3,500/mo
- Retire in NepalPokhara$900/mo
- Retire in New ZealandTauranga$2,600/mo
- Retire in PhilippinesCebu$1,400/mo
- Retire in SingaporeSingapore$4,500/mo
- Retire in South KoreaBusan$2,000/mo
- Retire in Sri LankaGalle$1,300/mo
- Retire in TaiwanTaipei$1,700/mo
- Retire in ThailandChiang Mai$1,500/mo
- Retire in VanuatuPort Vila$1,900/mo
- Retire in VietnamDa Nang$1,200/mo
Europe
- Retire in AlbaniaSarandรซ$1,300/mo
- Retire in AndorraAndorra la Vella$2,100/mo
- Retire in AustriaGraz$2,300/mo
- Retire in BelgiumGhent$2,400/mo
- Retire in Bosnia and HerzegovinaMostar$1,200/mo
- Retire in BulgariaPlovdiv$1,300/mo
- Retire in CroatiaSplit$2,000/mo
- Retire in CyprusPaphos$2,200/mo
- Retire in Czech RepublicPrague$1,900/mo
- Retire in DenmarkAarhus$2,800/mo
- Retire in EstoniaTallinn$1,800/mo
- Retire in FinlandTampere$2,300/mo
- Retire in FranceToulouse$2,400/mo
- Retire in GermanyDresden$2,200/mo
- Retire in GreeceChania$2,300/mo
- Retire in HungaryBudapest$1,700/mo
- Retire in IcelandReykjavik$3,200/mo
- Retire in IrelandGalway$2,600/mo
- Retire in ItalyLecce$2,500/mo
- Retire in LatviaRiga$1,600/mo
- Retire in LithuaniaVilnius$1,600/mo
- Retire in LuxembourgLuxembourg City$3,000/mo
- Retire in MaltaSliema$2,300/mo
- Retire in MoldovaChisinau$1,000/mo
- Retire in MontenegroKotor$1,500/mo
- Retire in NetherlandsMaastricht$2,500/mo
- Retire in North MacedoniaOhrid$1,200/mo
- Retire in NorwayStavanger$3,200/mo
- Retire in PolandKrakรณw$1,600/mo
- Retire in PortugalPorto$2,200/mo
- Retire in RomaniaBraศov$1,400/mo
- Retire in SerbiaBelgrade$1,400/mo
- Retire in SlovakiaBratislava$1,700/mo
- Retire in SloveniaLjubljana$2,000/mo
- Retire in SpainValencia$2,400/mo
- Retire in SwedenMalmรถ$2,500/mo
- Retire in SwitzerlandLucerne$3,800/mo
- Retire in United KingdomYork$2,400/mo
Middle East
- Retire in ArmeniaYerevan$1,200/mo
- Retire in AzerbaijanBaku$1,300/mo
- Retire in EgyptAlexandria$1,100/mo
- Retire in GeorgiaTbilisi$1,300/mo
- Retire in IsraelHaifa$2,800/mo
- Retire in JordanAqaba$1,600/mo
- Retire in OmanMuscat$2,200/mo
- Retire in TunisiaSidi Bou Said$1,300/mo
- Retire in TurkeyAntalya$1,500/mo
- Retire in United Arab EmiratesDubai$3,000/mo