In the last decade, the issues of comfortable living in an urban environment have become relevant. Whereupon, public spaces are constantly improved, and human habitation in it is improving. Quality assessing of the created conditions for comfortable living remains a difficult task due to the constantly changing human needs. Many countries including Russia solve this task, offering their own assessment methods. The article presents an analysis of international experience in the application of urban environment assessment indices and various ratings based on the obtained indices. The assessing methods of a comfortable urban environment are presented on the example of European countries and Russia. Since the use of indices for assessment the urban environment in Russia began much later than in other countries, the article presents an analysis of regulations and the essence of the methodology currently used. As a result, the purpose of the study is to analyze and evaluate the international and Russian experience in the use of indices for assessment of comfortable living conditions for people in an urban environment, the possibility of using this experience in Russian practice.