City wallpapers

A city looks different at every hour, and the pictures on this page cover most of them. Skylines at dawn with the first windows lit, wet streets reflecting neon, crossings at midday, rooftop views at blue hour, and long exposures where traffic turns into lines of light.

The night scenes are the most popular. They are dark in the corners, which suits desktop icons, and lit in the middle, so the eye lands in a good place. The daytime pictures are crisper and often geometric, with a repeating pattern of windows or a vanishing point.

Some of the pictures look like real places, others are imagined cities that borrow from several.

For wallpapers, the tall frames show a street dropping away from the camera or a tower rising through the clock. The wide frames suit skylines, and a long skyline across two monitors is a favourite.

Related pages include architecture for buildings in detail, rain for the wet-street mood, neon for the lights, and cyberpunk for the futuristic version. The retro page has vintage views of streets and signs.

63 city wallpapers (42 for desktop, 8 for phones, 13 square), all free to download in 4K as PNG or JPEG.

From the themes Cyberpunk city, Night city bokeh, Medieval fantasy, Giant mushroom forest, Watercolour & impressionism, Analog cinema, Carthage harbour, Rustic concrete texture.