The Best and Worst Cities for Verizon in 2022

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Verizon didn't win our nationwide Best Mobile Network award, but the carrier has a lot going for it—and it's on its way up. After spending a few years struggling with installing fast, but short-range millimeter-wave 5G in many cities, it is now spreading mid-band 5G through major metro areas, with great effect.

Here's where we found Verizon performance best and worst among the 30 cities we tested in 2022. It's important to note that in each of these lists, the cities are in alphabetical order, not a "best to worst" order. And if you're thinking of switching carriers, we have similar lists of the best and worst performance we saw on AT&T and T-Mobile.

These are the cities where we saw Verizon's best performance in testing.

Kansas City is one of T-Mobile's hometowns, but Verizon won there thanks to really consistent, reliable performance, especially on the Missouri side of the state line. (To nobody's surprise, T-Mobile had spectacular performance in Overland Park.)

Verizon's 5G coverage in Kansas City is oddly patchy and a complex mix of mid-band and high-band. 4G coverage and performance is still excellent, but we'd advise getting a phone with high-band 5G for the best performance in KC.

The second-fastest location we saw anywhere in the nation was near Bayfront Park in Miami, where Verizon has a high-band, millimeter-wave 5G setup that gave us speeds around 3Gbps. Nobody needs that on a phone, but that gives Verizon the capacity to handle massive crowds at concerts at the amphitheater. Miami was also the city with the fastest average Verizon download speeds, at 338Mbps.

Verizon high-band 5G in downtown Chandler showed one of the most spectacular results we saw nationwide—over 2Gbps—but the carrier's overall excellent