Where to live in Luxembourg
We track one city in Luxembourg: Luxembourg. It averages 11°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €4,187 a month to live centrally. Luxembourg sits in our high tax tier. For citizens from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- High
- High personal income tax
- Languages
- Luxembourgish, French, German
- Good English
- Safety
- 80/100
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | smaller | inland | 11°C | 832 mm | €4,187 |
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
Luxembourg sits in our high tax tier: high 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. Realistic long-term routes are skilled salaried work or the EU Blue Card with an employer, a self-employed business authorization, the investor permit, or the private-reasons permit for those whose income comes from EU/Schengen employment or a pension.
Citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Luxembourg:
- Income: about $3,221 a month (Luxembourg residence permit for private reasons (own resources), income must equal the social minimum wage for unskilled workers, EUR 2,771.33/mo as of 1 Jun 2026, and must come from EU/Schengen employment or an EU/Schengen pension; converted at EUR/USD 1.1624; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $581k (Luxembourg investor residence permit, minimum EUR 500,000 into an existing or new Luxembourg business; converted at EUR/USD 1.1624; 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).