A panel of Time Out experts selected 75 cities to celebrate in the book The World's Greatest Cities according to six criteria: Architecture, Arts & Culture, Buzz, Food & Drink, Quality of Life and World Status. The results are fascinating and frequently surprising. But now we'd like to know, which city, or cities, do you believe to be the greatest on earth and why? The World's Greatest Cities: Order your copy from the Time Out store. Listed below are the top ten world cities voted for by the Time Outside panel:
1. New York, USA
Architecture: 9 Arts & culture: 10 Buzz: 10 Food & drink: 9 Quality of life: 6 World status: 9 Total/60: 53.
2-London, UK
Architecture: 7 Arts & culture: 10 Buzz: 9 Food & drink: 9 Quality of life: 6 World status: 9 Total/60: 50 .
3- Paris, France
Architecture: 9 Arts & culture: 9 Buzz: 6 Food & drink: 9 Quality of life: 7 World status: 8 Total/60: 48 .
4- Berlin, Germany
Architecture: 7 Arts & culture: 9 Buzz: 9 Food & drink: 6 Quality of life: 7 World status: 8 Total/60: 46 .
5- Barcelona, Spain
Architecture: 9 Arts & culture: 7 Buzz: 8 Food & drink: 8 Quality of life: 8 World status: 4 Total/60: 44 .
6-Chicago, USA
Architecture: 9 Arts & culture: 8 Buzz: 7 Food & drink: 7 Quality of life: 7 World status: 6 Total/60: 44 .
7-Tokyo, Japan
Architecture: 7 Arts & culture: 6 Buzz: 9 Food & drink: 10 Quality of life: 4 World status: 8 Total/60: 44
8. Rome, Italy
Architecture: 9 Arts & culture: 7 Buzz: 7 Food & drink: 6 Quality of life: 6 World status: 7 Total/60: 42
9. Sydney, Australia
Architecture: 7 Arts & culture: 6 Buzz: 7 Food & drink: 7 Quality of life: 10 World status: 5 Total/60: 42
Remind yourself of why you love a city so much by following the links through to one of our online city guides: Almaty, Kazakhstan Amsterdam, Netherlands Athens, Greece Bangkok, Thailand Barcelona, Spain Beijing, China Beirut, Lebanon Belfast, N Ireland Belgrade, Serbia Berlin, Germany Bogot, Columbia Brasilia, Brazil Brussels, Belgium Bucharest, Romania Budapest, Hungary Buenos Aires, Argentina Cairo, Egypt Cape Town, South Africa Chicago, United States Copenhagen, Denmark Dakar, Senegal Delhi, India Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dublin, Ireland Edinburgh, Scotland Florence, Italy Glasgow, Scotland Hanoi, Vietnam Havana, Cuba Hong Kong, China Istanbul, Turkey Jakarta, Indonesia Johannesburg, South Africa Kingston, Jamaica Kolkata, India Krakow, Poland Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia .
