⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1325) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍33% liked it 👎67% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,008 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 12°C53°F (feels 11°C52°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 39% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 81 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 106 US AQI |
👌 Safety | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $442 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🤨 Busy: 11k ppl/km² (1 per 10x10m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Middle East |
🚩 Country | Iran |
🗓️ Average trip length | 14 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 12°C 53°F + 😊 Comfy (39%) = feels 11°C 52°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 81 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 106 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Snapp |
💸 100,000 IRR in USD | USD 2.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | IRR 10,000,000 = USD 238 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Lime Café |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,520,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 29,131 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,299 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 10x10m (100m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Delta Home |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Mahan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | IranAir |
🏥 Best hospital | American Hospital Tehran |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,008 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $829 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,617 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $462 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,809 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $381 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $85 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $118 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $0.00 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 373° cold | 30-1° freezing | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° warm | 7926° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 415° cold | 436° cold |
Real | 373° very cold | 31-1° freezing | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8831° hot | 8530° very warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 415° very cold | 426° very cold |
Humidity | too dry 24% | too dry 17% | too dry 16% | too dry 14% | too dry 19% | too dry 6% | too dry 12% | too dry 11% | too dry 9% | too dry 18% | too dry 24% | too dry 21% |
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Rain | dry 22mm | rainy 53mm | rainy 71mm | dry 29mm | dry 24mm | dry 0mm | dry 4mm | dry 5mm | dry 0mm | dry 7mm | rainy 55mm | dry 47mm |
Cloud | clear 7% | pockets 12% | pockets 23% | pockets 25% | pockets 28% | clear 0% | pockets 13% | pockets 12% | clear 2% | clear 9% | pockets 24% | pockets 20% |
Air quality | bad 129 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 109 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 93 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 122 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 229 people | 280 people | 250 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵✈️9h$4,483 / mo50Mbps×Great for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 72😷✈️8h$1,224 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×I only stayed for 3 weeks cause the life is kind of boring compared to Tokyo or Osaka. It helps a lot if you speak some korean since not many people speak english and most restaurants don't have english menu. The internet is fast but the public transportation is always crowded.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 34✈️9h$2,642 / mo🌇 Also went here11 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 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵✈️9h$4,483 / mo🌇 Also went here16 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 😡 Slow👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 30✈️10h$2,922 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×Was here in Mid-2023. Bali has completely changed from when I last visited in 2017. Full of arrogant influences and degenerate party people who are entitled and have no respect for the locals. Many Uber drivers told me they are starting to get annoyed because a lot of Westerners don’t respect anything…. Pollution and traffic are on the rise. It is turning into Kuta. Probably one of the least walkable places, forget walking on the sidewalk unless you want to get taken out. A lot of accidents
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 50✈️11h$1,917 / mo🌇 Also went here13 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° 57°✈️13h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here10 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° 60°AQI 42✈️16h$5,022 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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