Livability
Seven domain scores, weighted. 2 of them have data for Buka; a missing one is left out of the average, not counted as zero.
- Purchasing power25%No data
- Safetycountry20%35
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%No data
- Connectivitycountry10%35
- Cost10%No data
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.
What it costs
US dollars a month, against New York.
Nobody has reported prices for Buka in the last twelve months, so there are no costs to show yet. See the cities of Papua New Guinea that have them.
Prices
Everyday prices in US dollars, the median of the month’s contributions.
No prices have been reported for Buka this year.
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
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| Mar 2024 | — | — | $131 |
| Feb 2024 | — | — | $133 |
| Jan 2024 | — | — | $132 |
| Dec 2023 | — | — | $134 |
| Nov 2023 | — | — | $133 |
| Oct 2023 | — | — | $137 |
Safety
Numbeo crime survey. Both indices run 0 to 100; they are two sides of the same answers.
Country-level: the livability score uses Papua New Guinea's safety figure
No crime survey has been published for Buka yet.
Quality of life
Numbeo's published indices for Buka. Listed as Numbeo computes them, next to this index's own figures above.
Numbeo has not ranked Buka on quality of life.
Climate
Monthly means from NASA POWER climate normals. Temperature bands use the same scale on every city page.
No monthly climate normals for Buka yet.
- Annual mean
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- Warmest month
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- Coldest month
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- Rain a year
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- HumidityRelative, annual mean
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- SunshineSolar energy per day
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- Clear-sky daysA year
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- Comfort score0-100, 100 at 14-22 °C
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Air, internet and housing
The last 30 days of air, the latest month of broadband tests, and the property survey.
Air
No air-quality readings for Buka.
Internet
Papua New Guinea median; city not listed- Upload
- 18Mbps, fixed
- Latency
- 56ms, fixed
- Mobile download
- —Mbps
- Mobile latency
- —ms
Speedtest Global Index, Aug 2026.
Housing
No property survey for Buka yet.
Cities like Buka
In other countries, with the closest livability score and cost of living index.
No comparable cities found yet.
About these numbers
What the figures on this page rest on.
- Confidence
- Low confidence
- Contributors
- —Numbeo price survey
- Latest prices
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- Months with prices
- —Last 12 months
- Items priced
- —Of the 55 items
- Location
- Not matched to coordinates yet
- Index rebuilt
- 25 Sept 2026