Where to live in Lithuania
We track 3 cities in Lithuania: Kaunas, Klaipėda and Vilnius. Average temperatures run from 8°C to 9°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,826 to €2,959 a month to live centrally. Lithuania sits in our low to medium tax tier. For citizens from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Lithuanian
- Some English
- Safety
- 69/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 68/100
- country-level estimate
- Internet
- ~120 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
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, 2024) and 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). Source: The World Bank (World Development Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators), CC BY 4.0.
Limited data for Lithuania. Figures for safety, healthcare and cost of living in Lithuania are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no social openness figures for Lithuania, so the quiz scores that factor conservatively and this page leaves it 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.
Taxes
Lithuania 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
Possible, with conditions, for people from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland. Lithuania has no passive-income or retiree visa, so realistic long-term routes are employment (incl. EU Blue Card), study, family reunification, or a self-employment/business residence permit, with permanent residence available after five years.
Citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Lithuania:
- Income: about $1,338 a month (TRP means-of-subsistence requirement equal to 1 minimum monthly wage, EUR 1,153/mo (2026), at EUR/USD 1.16; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $16k (Business-basis TRP: foreigner's personal investment of at least EUR 14,000 into a Lithuanian UAB (company equity capital EUR 28,000, 6 months operation, local hiring), at EUR/USD 1.16; 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).