Outdoor lighting is an element featuring the urban environment that is becoming more and more relevant for urbanplanning, both in terms of influencing citizens’ health and wellbeing as well as the inclusiveness of people living incities. While urban studies have already extensively investigated urban quality and liveability, there is still little attentionon urban lighting as a relevant feature for ensuring high quality urban realms. Moreover, urban lighting can affecthealth and wellbeing of people and especially of the most vulnerable group of older adults. They suffer more thanothers not only of the lack of basic services such as public transport, but also of the inappropriate urban lighting thataffects their social life, health and wellbeing. The paper describes a method for including urban lighting as a factor forassessing urban quality, basing on the selection and mapping of key and easy to use indicators. The selected indicatorshave been tested in three European cities with different features in terms of latitude (that influence natural lightingand therefore the amount of exposure to artificial lighting), urban environments and lighting systems: Amsterdam (TheNetherlands), Bologna (Italy), and Tartu (Estonia). The selection has been affected by data availability especially in thelighting domain, highlighting the need of deepening the composition of key lighting indicators at different urban scales.The developed method allows to support policy makers in taking decisions about where and how to redesign the publiclighting systems introducing health and wellbeing as a transversal issue to consider in every public policy.