Where to live in Venezuela
We track 5 cities in Venezuela: Barquisimeto, Caracas, Ciudad Guayana, Maracaibo and Valencia. Average temperatures run from 22°C to 28°C. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Safety
- 39/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 54/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 2.4/10
- 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) 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 Venezuela. Figures for safety, healthcare and political stability in Venezuela are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, cost of living, English, social openness or internet speed figures for Venezuela, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 5 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barquisimeto | large | near the coast | 25°C | 904 mm |
| Caracas | large | coastal | 22°C | 938 mm |
| Ciudad Guayana | large | near the coast | 27°C | 1,183 mm |
| Maracaibo | large | coastal | 28°C | 791 mm |
| Valencia | large | coastal | 26°C | 1,045 mm |
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.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. The realistic routes are the rentista (independent-means/passive-income) visa for those with steady foreign income and the discretionary investor visa, both renewable yearly and convertible to permanent residency after about two years.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Venezuela:
- Income: about $1,200 a month (Venezuela Visa Rentista (independent-means/passive-income), USD 1,200/mo foreign-source income for the main applicant (+USD 500/mo per dependent); figure stated natively in USD by Venezuelan consulates, no conversion needed; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $100k (Venezuela Investor Visa (TR-I, Transeúnte Inversionista); no fixed statutory minimum (discretionary, case-by-case), with ~USD 100,000 the commonly cited practical floor; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 71 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 127 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).