Where to live in Kyrgyzstan
We track 3 cities in Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek, Manas and Osh. Average temperatures run from 12°C to 13°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,167 to €2,330 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Safety
- 64/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 51/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 4.3/10
- 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, 2020) 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 Kyrgyzstan. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Kyrgyzstan 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 Kyrgyzstan, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
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, from the World Bank price level.
Residency and visas
Comparatively open. Kyrgyzstan offers several accessible long-term routes including a digital nomad visa, employment- and family-based temporary residence permits, and an investor visa, with the residence-permit process recently simplified.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Kyrgyzstan:
- Income: about $417 a month (Kyrgyzstan digital nomad visa, USD 5,000/yr proof of income (60 days then annual renewal up to 10 years); as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $114k (Kyrgyzstan investment visa (type I), 10 million soms for 5-year validity, converted at 87.45 KGS/USD (June 2026); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 78 of 198 passports can enter visa-free, 118 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival and 2 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).