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With the International Day of Happiness coming up on March 20, WalletHub has released its report on 2025’s Happiest Cities in America, in an effort to find out which cities provide the best conditions for Americans’ mental and physical well being. To identify the happiest cities, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 29 key indicators of happiness. The data set ranges from the depression rate to the income-growth rate to the average leisure time spent per day.

Top 20 Happiest Cities in America

1. Fremont, CA
2. Irvine, CA
3. Sioux Falls, SD
4. Overland Park, KS
5. Lincoln, NE
6. Madison, WI
7. Scottsdale, AZ
8. San Francisco, CA
9. Huntington Beach, CA
10. San Jose, CA
11. Omaha, NE
12. Seattle, WA
13. Charleston, SC
14. San Diego, CA
15. Columbia, MD
16. Plano, TX
17. Honolulu, HI
18. South Burlington, VT
19. Garden Grove, CA

Key statistics:

• Pearl City, Hawaii has the lowest depression rate – 2.3 times lower than in Knoxville, Tennessee, the city with the highest.
• Newark, New Jersey has the lowest number of suicides per 100,000 residents – 6.5 times lower than in Missoula, Montana, the city with the highest.
• Fremont, California has the lowest separation & divorce rate – 4.6 times lower than in Detroit, Michigan, the city with the highest.
• South Burlington, Vermont, has the lowest share of adults sleeping less than 7 hours per night – two times lower than in Detroit, Michigan, the city with the highest.
• Missoula, Montana and Bismarck, North Dakota have the lowest average commute time – 2.6 times lower than in New York, the city with the highest.