⭐️ Total score | 3.09/5 (Rank #98) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍71% liked it 👎29% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $971 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 12Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C85°F (feels 28°C82°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 30% |
💨 Air quality (now) | ☠️ Very unhealthy: 280 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 86 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Bad |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $60 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Nepal |
🗓️ Average trip length | 11 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 29°C 85°F + 🌵 Too dry (30%) = feels 28°C 82°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 280 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 86 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Sarathi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 1,000 NPR in USD | USD 7.54 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NPR 10,000 = USD 75 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $722 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Hamrobazaar |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jet Airways |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Etihad Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | CIWEC |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $971 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $522 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,117 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $319 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $441 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $693 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $148 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $21 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $23 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $185 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,038 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 5714° cool |
Real | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 6619° mild | 7122° mild | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 6921° mild | 5714° cool | 5614° cool |
Humidity | too dry 28% | too dry 28% | too dry 20% | too dry 17% | nice 38% | nice 46% | nice 48% | nice 49% | nice 47% | nice 43% | nice 35% | too dry 30% |
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Rain | dry 2mm | dry 20mm | dry 28mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 204mm | rainy 475mm | rainy 550mm | rainy 664mm | rainy 382mm | rainy 95mm | dry 17mm | dry 28mm |
Cloud | pockets 15% | pockets 13% | pockets 13% | pockets 12% | pockets 39% | pockets 43% | pockets 46% | pockets 47% | pockets 39% | pockets 24% | pockets 19% | pockets 17% |
Air quality | bad 155 US AQI | bad 145 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 9 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI | bad 158 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 260 people | 367 people | 583 people | 683 people | 444 people | 333 people | 333 people | 333 people | 450 people | 844 people | 475 people | 400 people |
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I stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 30° 86°🥵AQI 71😷✈️11min$713 / mo80Mbps×Not for the faint of heart. The amount of burning corpses everyday, together with cows in the streets, labyrinths of alleys and the typical dirtyness is something to be far from. However, it surprisingly attracts lots of foreigners. I stayed a whole week and it was my personal record. Good luck -- you will love it or hate it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 45° 113° 43° 109°🥵✈️28min$935 / mo13Mbps×I stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 30° 86°🥵AQI 71😷✈️11min$713 / mo80Mbps×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 45° 113° 35° 94°🥵AQI 77😷✈️3h$1,334 / mo88Mbps×extremely dirty, very noisy, non walkable, the city is also ugly (except mausoleum and forts, of course). Hard to recommend, unless you’re very found of spirituality. Forget to mention but the food is of course amazing!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 41° 106° 44° 111°🥵AQI 377😷✈️1h$1,252 / mo49Mbps×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87°🥵✈️5h$4,303 / mo64Mbps×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 63😷✈️4h$1,220 / mo70Mbps×Lived here for over a year, but I only recommend short visits. Contrary to what you hear, there is plenty of crime in parts of Dubai. Talking about that crime is considered taboo and, in many cases, is illegal. Sexual assault and gang violence against expats took place just outside my building, to people who lived in my building. I went to the police station a few times, but the issue was never handled and no arrests were ever made. I have videos of (unspecified) crimes taking place here, but
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 31° 88°🥵AQI 95😷✈️4h$3,499 / mo46Mbps×I am reporting from Istanbul. The prices shown here are much lower than the current prices in Istanbul. (Prices are constantly increasing due to high inflation) For example, 1 beer costs $2 in markets, not in cafes! In cafes it is 4$ - also dinner is said to be 4$, but you can only eat a toasted bread for this money. To get an idea, a main course and a drink is at least $10.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 76😷✈️7h$1,775 / mo33Mbps×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 50✈️7h$1,848 / mo43Mbps×Definitely worth visiting but not particularly attractive as a remote work destination. I can't think of anything Seoul does better than other Asian cities outside of just being cool because it's South Korean (and I don't mean that sarcastically at all, South Korea is a very cool place). But again, do visit.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 55😷✈️5h$2,358 / mo85Mbps×One of India’s top cities for tech workers
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 95😷✈️2h$1,125 / mo15Mbps×Lived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵✈️3h$1,548 / mo66Mbps×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 21✈️9h$4,743 / mo81Mbps×I stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 30° 86°🥵AQI 71😷✈️11min$713 / mo🌇 Also went here67 people×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 44° 111° 35° 96°🥵AQI 58😷✈️2h$959 / mo🌇 Also went here85 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 45° 113° 35° 94°🥵AQI 77😷✈️3h$1,334 / mo🌇 Also went here130 people×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 47° 117° 35° 95°🥵AQI 7✈️4h$1,017 / mo🌇 Also went here69 people×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 63😷✈️4h$1,220 / mo🌇 Also went here93 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87°🥵✈️5h$4,303 / mo🌇 Also went here93 people×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 27° 81° 27° 80°AQI 38✈️7h$2,977 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Can’t recommend Ubud. It’s just the same overdeveloped and overpriced mentally isolated tourist trap that is Canggu, just a bit worse. If you have never been anywhere else, it might be okay for 2 weeks, but to any seasoned traveller it’s a the type of place you dread.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 50✈️7h$1,869 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×I am reporting from Istanbul. The prices shown here are much lower than the current prices in Istanbul. (Prices are constantly increasing due to high inflation) For example, 1 beer costs $2 in markets, not in cafes! In cafes it is 4$ - also dinner is said to be 4$, but you can only eat a toasted bread for this money. To get an idea, a main course and a drink is at least $10.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 76😷✈️7h$1,775 / mo🌇 Also went here84 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 42✈️9h$4,545 / mo🌇 Also went here68 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 53😷✈️10h$5,349 / mo🌇 Also went here76 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 42✈️10h$5,743 / mo🌇 Also went here89 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 50✈️10h$4,894 / mo🌇 Also went here71 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 33✈️11h$3,972 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°✈️16h$7,297 / mo🌇 Also went here72 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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