Where to live in Fiji
We track 2 cities in Fiji: Lautoka and Suva. Each averages 25°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,281 to €2,387 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Safety
- 71/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 51/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 6.4/10
- estimated
Estimated from World Bank indicators and calibrated to the scales of our reference tables: safety from the country-level homicide rate per 100,000 people (VC.IHR.PSRC.P5, 2023) and Worldwide Governance Indicators Political Stability and Absence of Violence estimate (GOV_WGI_PV.EST, 2025), healthcare from the life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024) and current health spending per person in US dollars (SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD, 2023), cost of living from the price level of GDP relative to the United States, from GDP per person in US dollars and at purchasing power parity (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, 2025) and democracy score from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability estimate (GOV_WGI_VA.EST, 2025). Source: The World Bank (World Development Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators), CC BY 4.0.
Limited data for Fiji. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Fiji are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, English, social openness or internet speed figures for Fiji, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 2 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, from the World Bank price level.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Fiji offers a self-funded Residence on Assured Income permit for applicants aged 45+ who park sufficient means in a local bank, plus investor permits for those funding an approved business, with no points test or language bar.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Fiji:
- Investment: about $45k (Residence on Assured Income permit, F$100,000 deposit in a local resident bank account (waivable if Fiji property is purchased); cheaper than the ~F$250,000 business investor route; FJD/USD 0.4541; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 112 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 86 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).