Where to live in Haiti
We track 5 cities in Haiti: Carrefour, Delmas, Jacmel, Port-au-Prince and Port-de-Paix. Average temperatures run from 27°C to 28°C. We estimate a couple needs €3,538 to €3,886 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Safety
- 31/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 44/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 3.5/10
- 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 Haiti. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Haiti 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 Haiti, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 5 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrefour | mid-sized | coastal | 27°C | 1,110 mm | €3,746 |
| Delmas | mid-sized | coastal | 27°C | 932 mm | €3,700 |
| Jacmel | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,081 mm | €3,538 |
| Port-au-Prince | large | coastal | 28°C | 899 mm | €3,886 |
| Port-de-Paix | mid-sized | coastal | 27°C | 1,344 mm | €3,665 |
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. Long-term residency is essentially employment- or family-based: a permis de séjour hinges on an employer's letter (or Haitian family ties) plus a work permit, with naturalization possible only after five years of residence and no investor or passive-income pathway.
For short visits, 193 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 5 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).