Cities that are great for biking have something in common — safe and connected bike infrastructure and a commitment by city leaders to build even more. Each year, PeopleForBikes releases our City Ratings to help cities understand where they currently rank and provide inspiration to improve. Our 2025 City Ratings, coming June 24, includes some new key features that help strengthen the critical connection between high quality places to ride and great biking cities.

Our annual City Ratings is a data-driven approach to evaluate, compare, and celebrate the best cities for biking in the U.S. and around the world. Each year, we score thousands of cities on how good they are for biking based on the safety and connectivity of their local bike networks. Since 2017, we’ve benchmarked progress on improving bicycling in cities nationwide to help cities understand how they stack up globally in creating safe, accessible places to ride and how they can improve.

New for this year, the 2025 City Ratings will incorporate thousands of bike projects from PeopleForBikes' Great Bike Infrastructure Project (GBIP), a first-of-its-kind initiative tracking the progress of bike infrastructure projects in communities across the country. From protected bike lanes to neighborhood greenways to singletrack trail connections, City Ratings will now track important bike projects from announcement through planning, construction, and completion, showing everyday riders what’s being built in their backyards and how they can support getting those projects across the finish line.

By including planned, proposed, and completed bike projects in City Ratings, we’re highlighting the critical link between the construction of safe, connected bike infrastructure and improved City Ratings scores. Cities that are putting in the work to create more high-quality places to ride are seeing that work pay off with increased scores year after year.

Stay tuned for the full 2025 City Ratings launch on June 24 and get ready to explore how your city ranks, what projects are in the works in your backyard, and how you can get involved to make biking better in your community. Can’t wait for this year’s ratings? Check out how your city scored last year and see if you improved this year!