⭐️ Total score | 2.49/5 (Rank #257) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,377 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 31°C87°F (feels 40°C104°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 78% |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $181 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
😤 People density | 😤 Dense: 18k ppl/km² (1 per 7x7m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | Nigeria |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 31°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (78%) = feels 40°C 104°F |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10,000 NGN in USD | USD 7.17 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NGN 100,000 = USD 72 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | CcHub |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Capital Square |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍18% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 710,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 13,607 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 16,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,176 / year |
😤 Population density | 😤 crowded: 7x7m (49m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 73% 👱♀️ 27% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Dana |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,377 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $812 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,085 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $310 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,385 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,109 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $262 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $65 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $69 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $102 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $959 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $1 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8429° warm | 8630° warm |
Real | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm |
Humidity | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 42% | nice 42% | nice 43% | nice 44% | nice 44% | nice 43% | nice 42% | nice 40% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 44mm | dry 38mm | rainy 51mm | dry 14mm | dry 25mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 225mm | rainy 154mm | rainy 226mm | rainy 167mm | rainy 81mm | dry 23mm |
Cloud | pockets 32% | pockets 31% | pockets 48% | pockets 47% | pockets 49% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 57% | pockets 49% | pockets 43% | pockets 37% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 289 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°✈️5h$5,516 / mo36Mbps×Overall, highly recommnded for the fall/spring. Great weather, food, wines and hikes. There are really nice coffeshops (currently writing from one, "The coffee place"). Internet is Ok, but check the accommodation before. Right now there is a lot of anti-sentiment for Russia, so consider that if you're from there.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 27✈️6h$5,005 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×I've been in Cape Town a month. The good: it's gorgeous, great hiking and scenery, wide variety of restaurants at affordable prices, lots of great cheap wine, walkable neighborhoods. The bones are there to make this an awesome place to live, and Cape Town knows it and has good nomad infrastructure (wi-fi, coworkings, etc.). That said, if you're looking to discover Africa, this ain't it. A lot of Cape Town's issues feel very American: inner-city homelessness, gentrification, yawning racial and so
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 76😷✈️7h$5,402 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 21✈️7h$6,209 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 63😷✈️7h$3,728 / mo🌇 Also went here9 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 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°✈️11h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 54😷✈️17h$5,022 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°✈️17h$5,775 / mo🌇 Also went here9 people×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 39✈️21h$3,837 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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