Where to live in the Seychelles
We track one city in the Seychelles: Victoria. It averages 26°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,829 a month to live centrally. The Seychelles sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- English, French, Creole
- Some English
- Safety
- 72/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 66/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~70 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | smaller | coastal | 26°C | 2,847 mm | €2,829 |
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
The Seychelles 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. Long-term residency realistically runs through the USD 1M permanent-residence-by-investment route or a discretionary residence/retirement permit granted to people of means; there is no published, fixed-threshold passive-income visa.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for the Seychelles:
- Investment: about $1M (Seychelles Permanent Residence by Investment, USD 1,000,000 minimum investment in a qualifying Seychelles business (plus ~USD 25,000 fees and means of support for 1 year); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 197 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 1 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).