⭐️ Total score | 3.57/5 (Rank #156) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,190 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 32°C89°F (feels 32°C90°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 33% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 14 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $642 / mo |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Kazakhstan |
⏱ Average trip length | 17 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 89°F + 😊 Comfy (33%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 14 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Kcell |
💸 1,000 KZT in USD | USD 2.14 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | KZT 100,000 = USD 214 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Veloyedov |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Nedelka |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $7,705 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 41% 👱♀️ 59% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Krisha |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Astana |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Astana |
🏥 Best hospital | IMC |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,190 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $701 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,294 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $370 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $203 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $94 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $686 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $32 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 117 listings) | $1,006 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $33 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 25-4° freezing | 415° cold | 457° cold | 6317° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 394° cold |
Real | 25-4° freezing | 415° very cold | 457° cold | 6217° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7524° warm | 5412° cool | 436° very cold | 394° very cold |
Humidity | nice 53% | nice 59% | nice 60% | nice 48% | nice 50% | nice 41% | nice 36% | nice 33% | too dry 28% | nice 49% | nice 50% | nice 52% |
Rain | dry 31mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 108mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 116mm | rainy 69mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 56mm | dry 21mm | rainy 68mm | dry 41mm | dry 26mm |
Cloud | cloudy 70% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 51% | pockets 33% | cloudy 74% | pockets 47% | cloudy 71% |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 360 people | 343 people | 280 people | 300 people | 250 people | 257 people | 367 people | 309 people | 333 people | 250 people | 250 people |
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