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Augsburg trumps Munich: Where Bavaria's happiness really lives!
Rostock takes last place in Germany's Happiness Atlas in 2025. The report analyzes life satisfaction in large cities.
Augsburg trumps Munich: Where Bavaria's happiness really lives!
The Germans' satisfaction with life is reflected in a colorful mix of city life and a warm, cheerful atmosphereHappiness Atlas 2025. Bradford in particular: Augsburg becomes a magnet for happiness and takes fourth place in the ranking of the 40 largest cities in Germany. This year, the residents of Augsburg can be particularly happy, while Munich has jumped to 27th place and Nuremberg has even fallen back to 36th place in the rankings. So reported Mercury of current developments.
But what about the top cities in Germany? Kassel secured first place with 7.44 points and thus exudes a comfortable quality of life that many large cities view with envy. Followed by Krefeld and Düsseldorf, Augsburg and Aachen take fourth and fifth place. This shows that a student-oriented environment and good infrastructure have a great attraction for residents and increase satisfaction. This is supported by the results from the Happiness Atlas, which also point to the general trend: Smaller cities often have more to offer when it comes to happiness in life. In this context offers SKL interesting insights into life satisfaction and highlights how different factors, from demographics to environmental quality, interact.
A look at the overall table reveals an interesting development: Munich and Frankfurt am Main end up in the bottom half of the table, while Rostock even brings up the bottom. Bernd Raffelhüschen from the University of Freiburg emphasizes that these results are not only based on subjective life satisfaction. Rather, objectively measured quality of life is also taken into account here - including living situation, living costs and good medical services. All of these aspects play a crucial role in defining the attitude to life in each city Travel reporter explained.
The colorful cities at a glance
A quick look at the rankings of life satisfaction makes it clear that not only the quality of life but also subjective perception has an influence. Here is an overview of the top 5 happy cities:
| Place | City | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | kassel | 7.44 |
| 2 | Krefeld | 7.39 |
| 3 | Dusseldorf | 7.36 |
| 4 | augsburg | 7.33 |
| 5 | Aachen | 7.33 |
But the other cities in the ranking also show exciting dynamics: While Lübeck and Bonn boast the highest increases in life satisfaction, cities like Rostock and Frankfurt have suffered slight losses. The survey is based on 23,468 surveys and offers a comprehensive impression of the attitude to life in Germany, which encourages us to raise our own voices and influence the level of satisfaction in our cities.
Ultimately, it turns out that life satisfaction depends not only on the size of a city, but also on the quality of life that we are offered. Let's look forward to the coming years, in which there will certainly be many more surprises!