Best maps in Cities Skylines 2 by everything

Let’s look on all maps which are available in Cities Skylines 2 and watch how they are ordered by their stats. I hope that you find there all informations about your first maps and other maps stats.

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1 Best map by buildable area

2 Best premium maps

3 Best maps by Fertile land

Why we make this list? We have list of all maps and this should be one of useful output for you players. I’ve personally hope that this article will save you time to choosing best map and help buying tiles so that you know the advantages of each map in particular.

*Purchasing map tiles in Cities Skylines 2*

Best map by buildable area

Building area is one of most important parameter which will everyone focus. Based our article about map tiles we know that maps will be huge because we will get buildable 171 km² which is 5x larger that base map in Cities: Skylines 1. So which maps in Cities Skylines 2 have most buildable area?

Name of map	Buildable area	Is premium map	Theme
Tampere	66 %	TRUE	European
Waterway Pass	53 %		North America
Lakeland	49 %		European
River Delta	42 %		European
San Francisco	42 %	TRUE	North America
Barrier Island	41 %		North America

Best premium maps

Some maps could be bough only with DLC / expansion / package / pre-order so this maps won’t be available if you don’t pay so let’s look on which maps we have here. I’ve ordered them by buildable area which will be probably one of main aspect why you want to buy these maps…

Name of map	Buildable area	Which DLC you must have	Theme
Tampere	66 %	Pre-order	European
San Francisco	42 %	San Francisco Pack	North America

Also they are for now copying real city locations as you should see. Tampere is in Finland and it’s home of Colossal Order and San Francisco you probably know. It will be interesting to see if they add more maps or if players will make them themselves. Maybe a New York or Barcelona could be fun for me.

Best maps by Fertile land

Fertile land will be important if your city will focus on agriculture. There will be several types of agriculture business, you will be able to “draw” your own fields and feed your citizens. There are best maps by fertile land so there you should have a good farming times on this maps:

Name of map	Fertile land	Buildable area	Is premium map	Theme
Tampere	20.9 km²	66 %	TRUE	European
Waterway Pass	15.5 km²	53 %		North America
River Delta	13.4 km²	42 %		European
Barrier Island	12.4 km²	41 %		North America
Great Highlands	12.4 km²	41 %		European
Lakeland	12.3 km²	49 %		European

Waterway Pass map from developer diaries

Best maps by Trees

Name of map	Trees	Buildable area	Is premium map	Theme
Lakeland	403000 t	49 %		European
River Delta	370000 t	42 %		European
Tampere	338000 t	66 %	TRUE	European
Windy Fjords	334000 t	21 %		North America
Mountain Village	263000 t	21 %		European
Waterway Pass	236000 t	53 %		North America

Best maps by Ore

Name of map	Ore resources	Buildable area	Is premium map	Theme
Twin Mountain	161100 t	39 %		European
Great Highlands	16100 t	41 %		European
Archipelago Haven	16000 t	16 %		European
San Francisco	15800 t	42 %	TRUE	North America
Lakeland	13300 t	49 %		European
River Delta	12900 t	42 %		European

Best maps by Oil

Name of map	Oil resources	Buildable area	Is premium map	Theme
Barrier Island	12700 t	41 %		North America
Mountain Village	11000 t	21 %		European
Sweeping Plains	10900 t	31 %		North America
Waterway Pass	10200 t	53 %		North America
San Francisco	9783 t	42 %	TRUE	North America
Great Highlands	8091 t	41 %		European

Latest update

This article was updated on 5th of September 2023 with maps which will be available in first days of Cities Skylines 2. For source we used stream from Gamescom so there could be probably small changes. If this occur then I will update article soon as possible.