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The Best Place To Retire In The World This 2026
Key Takeaways
- The article highlights the 12 best places to retire in the world for 2026, based on the Overseas Retirement Index.
- It emphasizes real-life experiences from expats and provides practical advice, unlike superficial lists.
- Tarragona, Spain; Crete, Greece; and Gascony, France are among the featured retirement destinations.
- The index focuses on locations with welcoming environments, lower costs of living, and vibrant cultures.
- Boquete, Panama ranks as the top destination due to its pleasant climate and expat community.
Over the past 12 months we've scoured the globe, exploring far-flung locations across Europe, Latin America, and Asia…
We've spent months interviewing expats, real estate agents, immigration attorneys… and weeks poring over facts and figures and crunching data…
The result of all those air miles, meetings, spreadsheets, and yes, admittedly, more than our share of sundowners on the beach with retirees living their best life abroad is the 2026 Overseas Retirement Index.
Whether you seek sun-soaked islands, cultural marvels, or off-the-beaten-path adventures, there's something for you on our list of the world's best places to retire in 2026.
How Our 2026 Overseas Retirement Index Stands Out
2026 might be the most exciting year on record to produce a list of the world's best places to retire. More people than ever before are considering moving abroad—a lifestyle choice that not long ago was considered unusual if not completely contrarian.
Because moving abroad is such a hot topic, more information about it is available than ever before. But more information doesn't always equate to good information…
Many of those currently producing lists of the world's best places to retire gloss over the most important stuff, like how to get residency, what your tax picture will be, and other practical considerations. They also omit the potential downsides and ugly truths…
Instead, these list-makers provide a superficial overview, focusing on what's fun and exciting about moving abroad rather than getting into the nitty-gritty of it. These kinds of "best of" lists make for enjoyable reading… but they're not useful for much else.
If you're serious about moving abroad, you should seek advice from people who know what they're talking about… people with a long track record and decades of experience with this topic…
You should also seek advice from people who actually live the lifestyle that they recommend to readers… people who have gone through the trials and tribulations of launching life in a new country… In other words, fellow expats.
That's exactly what our annual Overseas Retirement Index provides. Our editorial team is made up of real-life expats who've been lucky enough to explore the world extensively. We have first-hand experience with moving abroad, and we're among the few that can honestly say, "I've been in your shoes," as you consider this big life change.
We brought that perspective to bear as we crafted our list of the ultimate retirement havens to consider in 2026. We know what's important to expats and hold no punches, giving as comprehensive an overview as possible for each place that we recommended.
The 2026 Overseas Retirement Index emphasizes havens that welcome expats with open arms. These places offer better weather, slower paces of life, vibrant culture, and lower costs of living… and choosing any one of them could turn the page to a richer, more fulfilling chapter of your life.
So… where in the world are they…
#1 Boquete, Panama
Boquete is perhaps the world's best-known expat haven. It's home to some 25,000 people, over a fifth of whom are expats primarily from the U.S. and Canada, but a good number of Europeans, too. Living here you'll never want for English-speaking company.
In addition, Boquete offers fresh spring-like weather year-round. Down at sea level, Panama is hot and steamy. Up here in the highlands it's eternally pleasant… even cool enough some evenings for a fire.
The countryside is lush and green in this land of rainbows…
And the cost of living is still a bargain… especially when you consider the lifestyle on offer…
Life here today is fully appointed. Boquete boasts restaurants of nearly every nationality, nightlife, massage studios, beauty salons… along with grocery stores stocking international brands and medical clinics with English-speaking staff…
This region also produces some of the best coffee on earth, including the famous geisha bean, grown in beautiful fields all around.
It's a nature-lover's dream and an outdoorsman's playground. You could spend your days hiking the lush highlands, rafting on the river, spotting wildlife, fishing…
Plus, you're only around 45 minutes from David, Panama's second-largest city, where you'll find everything you'd expect to find in a large city back home.
You're also just 50 minutes from the Pacific coast and its beaches.
Boquete has everything you could want for your retirement lifestyle… and it's for all those reasons and more it's the place we've named the world's best for an overseas retirement this 2026.
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