Where to live in Algeria
We track 3 cities in Algeria: Algiers, Constantine and Oran. Average temperatures run from 17°C to 19°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,010 to €2,119 a month to live centrally. Algeria sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Limited English
- Safety
- 55/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 50/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~10 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 3 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algiers | large | coastal | 19°C | 612 mm | €2,119 |
| Constantine | mid-sized | near the coast | 17°C | 603 mm | €2,010 |
| Oran | mid-sized | coastal | 19°C | 321 mm | €2,048 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Algeria sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Hard to obtain. Long-term residency is essentially limited to employer-sponsored work permits, family reunification or marriage, and study, with no passive-income, retiree, or formal investor route, so a self-funded applicant has no fixed financial threshold to clear.
For short visits, 6 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 192 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).