Where to live in Czechia
We track 3 cities in Czechia: Brno, Ostrava and Prague. Average temperatures run from 10°C to 11°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,764 to €2,921 a month to live centrally. Czechia sits in our low to medium tax tier. For citizens from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Czech
- Some English
- Safety
- 74/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 70/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~90 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 3 cities we track
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
Czechia 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
Possible, with conditions, for people from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland. Czechia grants long-term residence through employment (Employee Card and EU Blue Card), a self-employed trade-licence route open to all nationalities, and study or family ties, with no passive-income or investor visa.
Citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Czechia:
- Income: about $940 a month (Czechia trade-licence (zivno) long-term-residence sufficient-means: living minimum + normative housing ~CZK 19,600/mo for a single applicant, at ~20.9 CZK/USD; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 93 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).