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Douala vs Lahore

for digital nomads

Under balanced weights Lahore edges it, 31 to 29, winning 6 of the 9 factors. Douala is stronger on air quality; Lahore on healthcare, visa ease. Change the weights in the ranker to see which one wins for you.

Safety: 3.9 of 28 points (scores 31/100)Healthcare: 4.4 of 28 points (scores 35/100)Internet: 3.2 of 28 points (scores 25/100)Visa ease: 4.0 of 28 points (scores 32/100)Getting there & around: 5.0 of 28 points (scores 40/100)Climate: 3.1 of 28 points (scores 25/100)Air quality: 2.5 of 28 points (scores 20/100)Quality of life: 2.4 of 28 points (scores 19/100)29
Douala
out of 100

Cameroon's humid port city and commercial capital, loud, lively and hard to walk

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Safety: 4.1 of 31 points (scores 33/100)Healthcare: 5.8 of 31 points (scores 46/100)Internet: 3.9 of 31 points (scores 31/100)Visa ease: 5.3 of 31 points (scores 42/100)Getting there & around: 5.9 of 31 points (scores 47/100)Climate: 4.2 of 31 points (scores 33/100)Air quality: 0.0 of 31 points (scores 0/100)Quality of life: 2.3 of 31 points (scores 19/100)31
Lahore
out of 100

Pakistan's cultural capital of food, forts and gardens

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Factor scores (0–100, balanced weights)

MetricDoualaLahore
Cost of livingno datano data
Safety3133 ✓
Healthcare3546 ✓
Internet2531 ✓
Visa ease3242 ✓
Getting there & around4047 ✓
Climate2533 ✓
Air quality20 ✓0
Quality of life19 ✓19

Cost

MetricDoualaLahore
Monthly cost, one personcountry-level estimate for at least one cityno datano data
Central one-bedroom rentno datano data

Safety and health (country-level)

MetricDoualaLahore
Homicides per 100k6.764.33 ✓
Political stability (0–100)36 ✓31.4
UHC service coverage (0–100)4856 ✓
Life expectancy61.8 yrs66 yrs ✓

Internet (M-Lab measured medians)

MetricDoualaLahore
Download3.7 Mbps4.1 Mbps ✓
Upload1.2 Mbps3.7 Mbps ✓

Visa

MetricDoualaLahore
Nomad visanone listednone listed
Minimum income for the visano datano data
Entry, US passporte-visa requiredeTA required (online, before travel) ✓
Entry, EU passporte-visa requiredeTA required (online, before travel) ✓
Entry, UK passporte-visa requiredeTA required (online, before travel) ✓

Getting there and around

MetricDoualaLahore
Non-stop airport destinations2125 ✓
Walkability (1–5, editorial)22
Transit (1–5, editorial)23 ✓

Climate and air

MetricDoualaLahore
Comfortable months per year34 ✓
Annual mean PM2.541.1 µg/m³ ✓86.1 µg/m³

✓ marks the better value in each row; ties and missing data are left unmarked.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Douala or Lahore?
We lack a monthly cost figure for one of the two cities.
Is Douala or Lahore safer?
Lahore scores higher on safety (33 vs 31), based on national homicide rates and World Bank political-stability scores.
Where is the internet faster, Douala or Lahore?
Lahore: a measured median of 4.1 Mbps versus 3.7 Mbps (M-Lab, 2024).

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Sources: Cost of Living Global 2026 (city rows); 2026 Cost of Living Index (country level); Digital Nomad Visas 2026; Worldwide Governance Indicators — Political Stability and Absence of Violence (score 0–100); Victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population (national data, latest year); UHC service coverage index; Life expectancy at birth (years), both sexes; M-Lab NDT statistics (city aggregates, 2024); Airport destinations (Wikipedia airline and destination tables); NASA POWER climatology (2001–2020 monthly means); SatPM2.5 satellite-derived annual PM2.5 (V6.GL.02.04); Human Development Index (HDR 2025, HDI 2023); EF English Proficiency Index 2024 (band); Walkability and transit ratings (editorial); Passport Index dataset (visa requirements, 199 passports × 199 destinations); OpenStreetMap restaurants (Overpass API); Starlink availability map. Dataset 2026.10.7. See each city page for per-metric footnotes and the methodology.