Salt Lake City is the eighth-best city in the nation for men and and the ninth-best for women, according to annual rankings by Men's Health and Women's Health magazines.

The rankings appear in the January/February issues of both magazines, on newsstands last week.

To determine which cities were the most friendly to men and women, the magazines' editors considered 35 criteria, ranging from air quality to employment to life expectancy to commute times, according to a news release. They also gathered and analyzed data on death rates from more than a half dozen causes, along with the propensity of men and women to become overweight.

Finally, the magazines considered quality of life by including the ratio of single women to single men (and vice versa).

The magazines ranked Seattle the best city for men, and San Jose, Calif., the best city for women.

Women's Health called out San Jose in part due to the fact that it has the nation's second-lowest depression rate. It also noted that 30 percent of San Jose's women work out twice a week, the highest percentage of any city surveyed.

San Jose ranked as the third-best city for men, while Seattle ranked the third-best city for women.

Like Salt Lake City, San Jose and Seattle, four other cities also ranked in the top 10 for both men and women: Madison, Wisc; Minneapolis; Fargo, N.D.; and Lincoln, Neb.

Birmingham, Ala., is the worst city for men, according to the magazines, and Philadelphia is the worst city for women.