⭐️ Total score | 2.78/5 (Rank #550) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,698 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 10Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C74°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 94% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 57 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $346 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Guatemala |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 24°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (94%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 GTQ in USD | USD 1.28 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | GTQ 1,000 = USD 128 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💻 Best coworking space | Impact Hub |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 80,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,147 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 72% 👱♀️ 28% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Avianca |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,698 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,079 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,897 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $542 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $948 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,628 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $417 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $44 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $53 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $169 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Feels | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild |
Real | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7122° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild |
Humidity | nice 74% | nice 70% | nice 69% | nice 78% | nice 93% | nice 97% | nice 88% | nice 95% | nice 95% | nice 89% | nice 77% | nice 72% |
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Rain | rainy 149mm | rainy 78mm | rainy 130mm | rainy 346mm | rainy 825mm | rainy 681mm | rainy 591mm | rainy 884mm | rainy 676mm | rainy 605mm | rainy 183mm | rainy 138mm |
Cloud | cloudy 51% | pockets 39% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 83% | overcast 90% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 66% | pockets 42% |
Air quality | clean 36 US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | okay 57** US AQI | clean 44 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 650 people | 782 people | 720 people | 820 people | 689 people | 580 people | 625 people | 440 people | 960 people | 400 people | 320 people | 477 people |
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Was here for less than a week and got jumped at gunpoint at 2pm, broad daylight in front of police and traffic. No one did anything, gangs seem the run the place. I've travelled to dozens of places and have lived in Mexico for >6mo, Guatemala is a whole different caliber of dangerous. Maybe I was just unlucky?
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 30✈️25min$1,602 / mo29Mbps×There is absolutely no reason to stay in Belize City. You're just going to get ripped off by taxis and restaurants (always do the math on your bill). You come to Belize to go to the islands or ruins, not Belize City.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 30✈️34min$2,409 / mo13Mbps×I love San Pedro for the diving, fishing and street food. Great internet and have worked here remotely several times in the last year. Some of the best diving in all of the Caribbean at offshore Atolls, with incredible bio-diversity, and world class fishing. I prefer minimalist island vibe without Gucci stores, am here for the wildlife, and love driving to dinner on the beach in a lifted golf cart.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 30✈️38min$4,504 / mo13Mbps×Ungodly hot year round, but some cool things to see. Can't imagine working from here, but it a cool enough place to visit for a few days if you can stand the heat. Volcano boarding is a great time!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 5✈️38min$1,104 / mo11Mbps×I stayed here for 6 months and I absolutely love Mexico City. The life is comfortable if you stay in the bubbles, namely Roma Norte, Condesa and Polanco, but the living cost has increased 30% since last year, due to the inflation and skyrocketing mexican pesos. Mexican people are so friendly and I never had any safety issues. Definitely will be back in the future.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 65😷✈️1h$1,961 / mo51Mbps×The stats are stats are super misleading and the reviews here as well. Locals are staring to recent digital nomads for the rise of housing prices and for it not paying taxes. It is really unfortunate, but I am let down by this city and the people. The only reason this city is popular is because all the single male wanting to go to parties and passport bros, if you are a female digital nomad you won’t feel any of this because most people that go there are male and are the ones causing the probl
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 64😷✈️4h$7,576 / mo129Mbps×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27°AQI 76😷✈️13h$3,882 / mo🌇 Also went here112 people×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
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