The Safest Cities Worldwide For Female Digital Nomads

But when it comes to deciding where to work remotely, not all digital nomads have the freedom to be able to pick a destination solely based on sunshine, nightlife, or culture.

For female travellers, personal safety is a huge factor.

Women have to consider things like local attitudes toward females and whether it’s safe to walk home alone after dark while travelling, and even more so when relocating somewhere.

That’s why we’ve put together this index of the safest cities for female digital nomads, using data from actual travellers about where they have felt the most comfortable.

1. Taipei, Taiwan

Taking the top spot as the safest city for female digital nomads, by a landslide, is Taipei. Reports about Taiwan’s capital city highlight that public transportation is reliable and convenient, including late at night, and that it is not uncommon for women to be out alone in the evenings.

Taipei ranked joint first place for a lot of the factors, including friendliness to foreigners, a perceived female safety score, and legislation towards women’s rights. Taiwan scored really well overall too, with Kaohsiung (the other Taiwanese city in the study) ranking in 7th position.

Those looking to work remotely from the country can enjoy Taiwan’s new digital nomad visa for stays of up to six months, which the country launched at the beginning of 2025 to attract digital professionals and boost tourism.

2. Chiang Rai, Thailand

Another East Asian city took the second position, this time in Thailand: Chiang Rai. Nestled in the hills, Chiang Rai is one of the country’s lesser-visited, but equally as charming, cities. Data suggests that women feel safe when walking alone here, with the city ranking third in the entire study for this.

Chiang Rai also has a higher-than-average ratio of female to male digital nomads, with its percentage of 22% being higher than any of the other Thai cities in the study. In fact, as a whole, the North of Thailand and Bangkok scored a lot higher than the country’s southern destinations, greatly outranking them when it comes to worries about being safe walking alone at night.

3. Montevideo, Uruguay

Rounding up the top three safest cities for female digital nomads is on the other side of the world. Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, scored joint first in all factors relating to women’s rights, as well as perceived friendliness to both females and foreigners.

The ratio of female digital nomads to males in the city is only just below the average across the study, with 17%. Montevideo scored lower than the other two cities in the top three for how safe females feel walking alone but was still well above the average of the study.

And What About The Safest City In Europe For Female Digital Nomads?

Taking first place in Europe is Venice, still impressively ranking fourth worldwide. The city scored well ahead of its Italian counterparts in the study, outranking them across all city-specific factors, although most specifically for how friendly it is to foreigners.

And Country?

Portugal scored impressively across the board, with all five of the six cities in the campaign being in the top 20. The country welcomes digital nomads on its dedicated visa, which allows remote workers to live and work in the country for up to a year.

Key Findings:

• Female digital nomads comprise less than 25% of the total digital nomad population in most cities, with an average of 18% across the board, which indicates a gender imbalance in digital nomadism.
• Some of the safest cities have a low percentage of female digital nomads, which suggests that safety isn’t the only factor determining where female nomads go.
• All countries included in the study allow women to have jobs in the same way as men, apart from Jordan, and most countries included have legislation to protect women from harassment in the workplace apart from Japan, Guatemala, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

Methodology

We took a list of the 200 cities ranked as the best for digital nomads, by digital nomads, on Nomads.com and analysed them across a range of different factors to determine the safety of women.

• Safety of walking alone as a female: to consider the worries of being attacked when walking alone as a female
• Friendliness to foreigners: to consider receptiveness to nomads in general
• Friendliness to females: to consider how welcoming it is to women
• The ratio of female/male digital nomads: to understand where is drawing the most women nomads
• Legislation on sexual harassment in employment: to consider attitudes to women in the workplace
• Women can take the same jobs as men: to consider attitudes toward working women
• Digital Nomad offering for 6+ months: to understand where is explicitly welcoming remote workers

Sources used include Nomads.com, Our World in Data and Numbeo.