Fort-de-france
- Population
- 90,000
- Coordinates
- 14.60° N, 61.07° W
- Time zone
- America/Martinique
- Status
- Capital city
- Prices for
- Sep 2026
One person needs about $2,129 a month in Fort-de-france, rent included: 64% less than in New York. The average net salary is $2,282 a month.
Livability
Seven domain scores, weighted. 4 of them have data for Fort-de-france; a missing one is left out of the average, not counted as zero.
- Purchasing power25%64
- Safety20%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%76
- Air quality10%90
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%31
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank in Martinique
- #1
- Cheapest-city rank, worldwide
- #2,439
What it costs
US dollars a month. Indices compare with New York, which is 100; changes are against the same month a year earlier.
Prices
55 everyday prices in US dollars, the median of this month's contributions, each against a base you choose.
Differences are against New York; teal marks a price that is lower (or a salary that is higher).
| Item | Fort-de-france | New York | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | |||
| Meal, inexpensive restaurant | $22.96 | $25.00 | −8% |
| Meal for 2, mid-range restaurant (3 courses) | $103 | $140 | −26% |
| McMeal at McDonald's (or equivalent combo meal) | $15.50 | $14.00 | +11% |
| Domestic beer (0.5 l, draught) | $7.46 | $8.00 | −7% |
| Imported beer (0.33 l bottle, restaurant) | $5.17 | $10.00 | −48% |
| Cappuccino (regular) | $4.88 | $6.37 | −23% |
| Coke/Pepsi (0.33 l bottle) | $3.73 | $3.80 | −2% |
| Water (0.33 l bottle) | $3.83 | $2.89 | +33% |
| Markets | |||
| Milk (1 l) | $1.78 | $1.36 | +31% |
| Loaf of fresh white bread (500g) | $1.98 | $4.68 | −58% |
| Rice, white (1 kg) | $3.67 | $6.97 | −47% |
| Eggs (12) | $6.41 | $5.73 | +12% |
| Local cheese (1 kg) | $19.52 | $17.38 | +12% |
| Chicken fillets (1 kg) | $22.71 | $15.11 | +50% |
| Beef round (1 kg, or equivalent red meat) | $20.66 | $17.77 | +16% |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.90 | $6.11 | −36% |
| Bananas (1 kg) | $1.42 | $2.20 | −35% |
| Oranges (1 kg) | $3.01 | $5.77 | −48% |
| Tomato (1 kg) | $6.71 | $6.25 | +7% |
| Potato (1 kg) | $1.98 | $3.47 | −43% |
| Onion (1 kg) | $2.28 | $4.17 | −45% |
| Lettuce (1 head) | $1.64 | $2.72 | −40% |
| Water (1.5 l bottle) | $0.76 | $2.50 | −70% |
| Bottle of wine, mid-range | $8.67 | $20.00 | −57% |
| Domestic beer (0.5 l bottle) | $1.77 | $3.21 | −45% |
| Imported beer (0.33 l bottle) | $2.85 | $3.96 | −28% |
| Cigarettes (20 pack, Marlboro) | $12.17 | $19.00 | −36% |
| Transport | |||
| One-way ticket, local transport | $1.66 | $3.00 | −45% |
| Monthly pass, regular price | $51.66 | $140 | −63% |
| Taxi start, normal tariff | $4.36 | $3.00 | +45% |
| Taxi, 1 km, normal tariff | $2.14 | $2.18 | −2% |
| Taxi, 1 hour waiting, normal tariff | $43.62 | $42.00 | +4% |
| Gasoline (1 l) | $2.61 | $1.10 | +137% |
| Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (or equivalent new car) | $36,212 | $35,458 | +2% |
| Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW (or equivalent new car) | $34,415 | $25,309 | +36% |
| Utilities, per month | |||
| Basic utilities, 85m² apartment (electricity, heating, cooling, water, garbage) | — | — | — |
| Mobile plan (calls + 10GB data) | $11.47 | $73.50 | −84% |
| Internet (60 Mbps+, unlimited, cable/ADSL) | $48.78 | $71.93 | −32% |
| Sports and leisure | |||
| Fitness club, monthly fee (1 adult) | $39.03 | $126 | −69% |
| Tennis court rent (1 hour, weekend) | $18.37 | $62.38 | −71% |
| Cinema, 1 seat, international release | $11.25 | $23.00 | −51% |
| Childcare | |||
| Preschool, full day, private (monthly, 1 child) | $517 | $3,366 | −85% |
| International primary school (yearly, 1 child) | $4,075 | $60,589 | −93% |
| Clothing and shoes | |||
| 1 pair of jeans (Levi's 501 or similar) | $115 | $72.80 | +58% |
| 1 summer dress, chain store (Zara, H&M) | $28.70 | $53.22 | −46% |
| 1 pair of Nike running shoes, mid-range | $155 | $118 | +32% |
| 1 pair of men's leather business shoes | $217 | $125 | +74% |
| Rent, per month | |||
| Apartment (1 bedroom) in city centre | $1,041 | $4,417 | −76% |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) outside centre | $742 | $3,033 | −76% |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) in city centre | $1,756 | $9,242 | −81% |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) outside centre | $1,406 | $5,461 | −74% |
| Buying an apartment | |||
| Price per square meter, apartment in city centre | $2,356 | $18,759 | −87% |
| Price per square meter, apartment outside centre | $2,777 | $6,523 | −57% |
| Salary and financing | |||
| Average monthly net salary, after tax | $2,282 | $5,178 | −56% |
| Mortgage interest rate, 20-year fixed rate (%) | 1.45% | 6.49% | −5.0 pts |
Three years of prices
Each line starts at 100 in its first month, so a rise in rent can be read against a rise in salary on the same scale. The core basket is twelve everyday prices. Hover for the actual values.
Show the monthly values
| Month | Core basket index | Rent, 1 bedroom | Net salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | — | $1,041 | $2,282 |
| May 2026 | 61.5 | $1,065 | $2,334 |
| Apr 2026 | 61.4 | $1,068 | $2,341 |
| Mar 2026 | 59.6 | $1,036 | $2,272 |
| Jan 2026 | 61.6 | $1,070 | $2,345 |
| Dec 2025 | 60.8 | $946 | $2,323 |
| Nov 2025 | — | — | $2,282 |
| May 2025 | 58.0 | $794 | $2,223 |
| Dec 2024 | 53.8 | $739 | $2,068 |
| Jun 2024 | 51.3 | $679 | $2,164 |
| May 2024 | 50.4 | $671 | $2,139 |
| Apr 2024 | 49.4 | $666 | $2,123 |
| Jan 2024 | 50.3 | $684 | $2,182 |
Safety
Numbeo crime survey. Both indices run 0 to 100; they are two sides of the same answers.
No crime survey has been published for Fort-de-france yet.
Quality of life
Numbeo's published indices for Fort-de-france. Listed as Numbeo computes them, next to this index's own figures above.
Numbeo has not ranked Fort-de-france on quality of life.
Climate
Monthly means from NASA POWER climate normals. Temperature bands use the same scale on every city page.
- Annual mean
- 27.4 °C
- Warmest monthSeptember
- 28.6 °C
- Coldest monthFebruary
- 26.1 °C
- Rain a year
- 1,478 mm
- HumidityRelative, annual mean
- 77%
- SunshineSolar energy per day
- 5.8 kWh/m²
- Clear-sky daysA year
- 6
- Comfort score0-100, 100 at 14-22 °C
- 76
Air, internet and housing
The last 30 days of air, the latest month of broadband tests, and the property survey.
Air
- Unhealthy days
- 0AQI above 100
- Worst day
- 38
- PM2.5
- 8.1µg/m³, mean
- Air score
- 900-100
Internet
No internet speed measurements for Fort-de-france or its country.
Housing
- Price to income
- 5.6Years of income, 90 m² flat
- Price to rent
- 10.7Years of rent, centre
- Rental yield
- 9.4%Gross, centre
- Mortgage rate
- 1.45%20-year fixed
- 80 m² in the centre
- 6.9Years of net salary
Numbeo property survey, 20 Sept 2026.
Cities like Fort-de-france
In other countries, with the closest livability score and cost of living index.
About these numbers
What the figures on this page rest on.
- Confidence
- Medium confidence
- Contributors
- 7Numbeo price survey
- Latest prices
- Sep 20261 readings that month
- Months with prices
- 7 of 12Last 12 months
- Items priced
- 98%1 basket items from the country median
- Location
- Matched to a GeoNames reference city
- Index rebuilt
- 24 Sept 2026