Where to live in Liechtenstein
We track one city in Liechtenstein: Vaduz. It averages 11°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,744 a month to live centrally. Liechtenstein sits in our low to medium tax tier. For citizens from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- German
- Good English
- Safety
- 90/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 82/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~150 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaduz | smaller | inland | 11°C | 1,073 mm | €3,744 |
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
Liechtenstein 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
Hard to obtain, for people from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland. The only self-funded route is a residence permit without gainful employment for people of independent means, but every residence permit is strictly quota-limited and handed out by twice-yearly lottery, so clearing the financial bar still does not secure a place.
Citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Liechtenstein:
- Income: about $11k a month (Liechtenstein residence permit without gainful employment (financially independent), proof of income from CHF 100,000/yr (about CHF 8,333/mo), lottery-allocated; converted at CHF/USD 1.2645; 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).