Top Cities

Top 10 Overall

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 5 Kyoto, Japan 90.21 2 7 Charleston, South Carolina 90.18 3 3 Florence 89.99 4 - Siem Reap, Cambodia 89.82 5 6 Rome 89.61 6 2 Istanbul 89.58 7 - Seville, Spain 89.28 8 8 Barcelona 89.18 9 - Mexico City 89.07 10 - New Orleans 88.74

United States and Canada

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 1 Charleston, South Carolina 90.18 2 6 New Orleans 88.74 3 7 Savannah, Georgia 88.30 4 2 San Francisco 87.53 5 4 Chicago 87.21 6 9 Vancouver 86.71 7 5 Santa Fe, New Mexico 86.68 8 8 Quebec City 86.51 9 3 New York City 86.26 10 - Boston 85.69

Mexico and Central and South America

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 3 Mexico City 89.07 2 1 Cuzco, Peru 87.63 3 2 Buenos Aires 83.75 4 5 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 81.84 5 4 Rio de Janiero 81.08 6 7 Santiago, Chile 79.12 7 6 Lima, Peru 78.76 8 8 Playa del Carmen, Mexico 78.56 9 - Los Cabos, Mexico 77.97 10 10 Cancún, Mexico 75.17

Europe

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 2 Florence 89.99 2 3 Rome 89.61 3 1 Istanbul 89.58 4 - Seville, Spain 89.28 5 4 Barcelona 89.18 6 - Budapest 88.39 7 7 Prague 88.27 8 - Siena, Italy 87.51 9 5 Paris 87.15 10 - Edinburgh 87.13

Asia

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 2 Kyoto, Japan 90.21 2 4 Siem Reap, Cambodia 89.82 3 1 Bangkok 88.32 4 6 Tokyo 85.35 5 5 Hong Kong 84.89 6 8 Shanghai 83.56 7 10 Hanoi, Vietnam 82.77 8 - Xi'an, China 82.48 9 - Beijing 81.61 10 7 Singapore 81.29

Africa and the Middle East

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 2 Jerusalem 88.47 2 1 Cape Town 88.41 3 3 Tel Aviv 84.70 4 - Marrakesh, Morocco 83.22 5 5 Cairo 79.89

Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific

Rank 2014 Rank 2013 Name Score 1 1 Sydney 88.39 2 3 Melbourne 85.53 3 2 Queenstown, New Zealand 84.89

- means that the winner was not among the top-ranked in this category last year.

Debut denotes a World's Best Awards debut.

Great Value denotes a rate of $250 or less

Hall of Fame denotes Hall of Fame

Throughout the World’s Best Awards, scores are rounded to the nearest hundredth of a point; in the event of an exact tie, properties, companies, or destinations share the same ranking.