Where to live in Trinidad & Tobago
We track 3 cities in Trinidad & Tobago: Chaguanas, Port of Spain and San Fernando. Average temperatures run from 26°C to 27°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,526 to €2,612 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Safety
- 46/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 63/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 7.0/10
- estimated
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, 2022) 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, 2023), 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) and democracy score from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability estimate (GOV_WGI_VA.EST, 2025). Source: The World Bank (World Development Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators), CC BY 4.0.
Limited data for Trinidad & Tobago. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Trinidad & Tobago are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, English, social openness or internet speed figures for Trinidad & Tobago, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 3 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaguanas | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 2,002 mm | €2,557 |
| Port of Spain | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,575 mm | €2,526 |
| San Fernando | smaller | coastal | 26°C | 1,571 mm | €2,612 |
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.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Long-term residency is realistic mainly through employer-sponsored work permits/CSME, marriage or family sponsorship, the five-year continuous-residence route, or an independent-means retiree path, all of which remain ministerially discretionary.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Trinidad & Tobago:
- Income: about $2,500 a month (Retiree / independent-means residency, guaranteed income of US$2,500/mo (age 50+), reported by specialist sources; not published on the official Ministry residence page; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 100 of 198 passports can enter visa-free, 4 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival and 94 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).