Where to live in St. Kitts & Nevis
We track one city in St. Kitts & Nevis: Basseterre. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,819 a month to live centrally. St. Kitts & Nevis sits in our zero or very low tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Tax tier
- Zero or very low
- Little to no personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- English everywhere
- Safety
- 68/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 64/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~70 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basseterre | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,418 mm | €2,819 |
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
St. Kitts & Nevis sits in our zero or very low tax tier: little to no 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
Comparatively open. Realistic long-term residency runs through the citizenship-by-investment program (one-time donation or approved real estate), with a discretionary retiree/self-sufficiency residence permit also available but no published income threshold.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for St. Kitts & Nevis:
- Investment: about $250k (St Kitts & Nevis CBI, Sustainable Island State Contribution (SISC) one-time donation, USD 250,000 for a single applicant; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 121 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 77 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival.
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).