From PeopleForBikes.org
By: Jack Foersterling, editorial content manager
Our annual City Ratings is a data-driven approach to evaluate, compare, and celebrate the best cities for biking in the U.S. and around 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 2025, we ranked nearly 3,000 cities worldwide, including 209 new U.S. cities. This year’s ratings feature the return of our best city for biking — the car-free Mackinac Island, Michigan — which boasts the first perfect score in City Ratings history. We also welcome a brand new best large U.S. city for bicycling — Brooklyn, New York — narrowly edging out Minneapolis, Minnesota, which took home the top spot in last year’s rankings. In our European ratings, the tremendous work done to improve bicycling in Paris boosted the French capital to our top international city for bicycling, showing that dedicated investments directly translate to improved City Ratings scores.