The popularity of solo female travel continues to grow in 2025. More and more women are planning to explore the world independently and without boundaries – finding places where they can travel safely and be able to create lasting memories in incredible new destinations. It’s important to prioritize safety when planning a solo travel trip, making sure to research the best places and most enjoyable cities to visit.
For the fourth year in a row, InsureMyTrip conducted a study across 62 cities, based on metrics of female safety and tourism to create a list of the best cities for solo female travelers and their ranking changes from 2024.
Top City for Solo Female Travelers
For 2025, the top city is Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an overall score of 7.71. Despite being one of the most expensive cities – with an average cost of $289 per day, it has the largest social media presence with more than 35 million mentions on TikTok, while also having high ratings for hotels and things to do. In terms of female safety, Dubai has a rating of 86.23 out of 100 for feeling safe and 83.11 out of 100 for feeling safe walking alone at night, which are both highest scores across all the cities. Dubai also has high index scores for gender quality, with 0.713 out of 1 and the peace and security for women with 0.868 out of 1.
Top 10 Cities Ranking Changes Between 2024 and 2025
The top 10 cities for Solo Female Travelers, with their overall scores, are as follows:
- Dubai, UAE – 7.71
- Krakow, Poland – 7.18
- Madrid, Spain – 7.14
- Munich, Germany – 6.89
- Chiang Mai, Thailand – 6.84
- Lisbon, Portugal – 6.61
- Prague, Czechia – 6.50
- Vienna, Austria – 6.47
- Singapore – 6.43
- Heraklion, Greece – 6.26
The largest change is Singapore, which increased by 52 places to reach ninth place, while Munich dropped three places to fourth place. Heraklion at 10th went up five places to reach the top 10 for the first time since InsureMyTrip began the study. Krakow reaches second place, up from 12th in 2024, with the highest ratings of hotels and quality of things to do across the study.
Best Cities for Female Safety
Munich tops rankings for female safety with an overall score of 8.90 – with the highest rating for gender quality (0.81 out of 1). Denmark’s Copenhagen and Spain’s Madrid take second and third place respectively. Denmark has the highest score on the Women Peace and Security index with 0.932 out of 1 and Madrid has a high score for feeling safe despite gender with 83.22 out of 100.
Delhi, India ranks as the worst city for female safety with an overall score of 2.24. It scored particularly low for feeling safe a night at 28.22 out of 100. Johannesburg, South Africa (3.06) and Marrakech, Morrocco (3.36) followed as second and third worst, with both scoring low in the Women Peace and Security Index category (0.688 and 0.637 out of 1 respectively).
Best Cities for Tourism
In first place is Dubai, followed by Krakow, Poland and Jakarta, Indonesia. Krakow has an average hotel rating of 4.37 out of 5 and an average rating of 4.65 out of 5 for things to do. Jakarta comes in close behind with an average rating of 4.59 out of 5 for things to do but has a higher number of mentions with 3.8 million mentions over Krakow which has 353k.
At the other end of the scale, Hong Kong has the lowest score across tourism metrics with 1.97, however, it has a strong popularity on TikTok with 1.7 million mentions. It also has a high average cost per day of $196. Three American cities, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles make it into the top 5 worst cities for tourism in the study, for being more expensive cities.
Methodology
Each data point consists of the latest research available from reputable sources. The data was standardized using minmax normalization. The minmax normalization value is multiplied by 10 to create a score (between 1-10). A score of 10 is always the best result, while a score of 0 is the worst. Each city is then ranked on their overall average rating across all data points which includes both city-level data and one country-level data point.
Sources
Female Safety:
- Feeling Safe Despite Gender – found under the specific country researched on https://www.numbeo.com/crime/
- Feeling Safe Walking Alone at Night – found under the specific country researched on https://www.numbeo.com/crime/
- Gender Equality – https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/
- Women Peace and Security Index – https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WPS-Index-full-report.pdf
Tourism:
- Tiktok Popularity (Number of # with City Name) – https://www.tiktok.com/discover/
- Ratings of Hotels – https://www.google.com/maps
- Quality of Things to Do – https://www.google.com/maps
- Average Cost Per Day – https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/
