Where to live in Honduras
We track 3 cities in Honduras: La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. Average temperatures run from 22°C to 26°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,539 to €2,675 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Safety
- 41/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 56/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 4.8/10
- 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 Honduras. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Honduras 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 Honduras, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 3 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Ceiba | smaller | coastal | 26°C | 2,290 mm | €2,539 |
| San Pedro Sula | mid-sized | coastal | 26°C | 1,371 mm | €2,668 |
| Tegucigalpa | mid-sized | near the coast | 22°C | 1,110 mm | €2,675 |
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
Comparatively open. Honduras offers accessible long-term residency through a pensionado route for retirees with guaranteed pension income, a rentista route for those with stable passive/independent means, and an investor route for those starting or investing in a Honduran business.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Honduras:
- Income: about $2,500 a month (Honduras Rentista (independent-means) residency, USD 2,500/mo from stable passive income; the Pensionado route is lower at USD 1,500/mo but requires a guaranteed pension; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $50k (Honduras Investor residency, USD 50,000 investment in an approved Honduran business (plus a USD 5,000 Central Bank deposit refunded within a year); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 85 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 113 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).