⭐️ Total score | 3.9/5 (Rank #62) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,504 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 21°C71°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 78% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 31 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $304 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Georgia |
⏱ Average trip length | 14 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 21°C 71°F + 😊 Comfy (78%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 31 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Geocell |
💸 10 GEL in USD | USD 3.40 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | GEL 1,000 = USD 340 |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Express_O |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 160,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,651 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 55% 👱♀️ 45% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qatar |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,504 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $839 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,018 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $291 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $204 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $88 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $983 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $46 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 1,001 listings) | $1,494 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $49 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.28 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Safe for women
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 5513° cool | 489° cold | 489° cold | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 5412° cool |
Real | 5714° cool | 4910° cold | 5010° cold | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 6217° cool | 5513° cool |
Humidity | nice 53% | nice 64% | nice 70% | damp 74% | nice 74% | nice 83% | nice 81% | nice 84% | nice 82% | nice 73% | nice 67% | nice 55% |
Rain | rainy 179mm | rainy 185mm | rainy 240mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 80mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 217mm | rainy 134mm | rainy 477mm | rainy 324mm | rainy 140mm | rainy 271mm |
Cloud | cloudy 79% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 78% | pockets 42% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 70% |
Air quality | okay 97 US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | bad 151 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 267 people | 533 people | 640 people | 550 people | 667 people | 700 people | 567 people | 571 people | 600 people | 600 people | 400 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 59✈️22min$2,176 / mo5Mbps×Has a great techno music scene. Nightlife is great even during covid time. Young locals speak good English.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 26✈️50min$749 / mo8Mbps×Amazing city and underrated so far. But it'll become very popular at some point so take a chance to visit now. Amazing people, great and unique food, incredible nature, one f the biggest visa permits (365 days). On top of that you can open the company and pay 1% income tax as a freelancer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 49✈️21min$1,382 / mo10Mbps×A great place to be. Excellent price/quality ratio. You can easily find everything needed to work: coworking, sim (you can eg use Airalo). There is a plenty of things to do in the city and around it. Food is dirt cheap and delicious. It can be trashy and sometimes touristy but that didn't cause problems for me.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 32✈️1h$1,204 / mo6Mbps×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 8✈️2h$1,005 / mo13Mbps×Kyiv is a seriously not a good place for nomads to stay in. People don't speak english and are not friendly to foreigners at all, either you're white, asian, black, arab, latino, whatever. Food isn't really good specially when it comes to delivery, expensive and tasteless. The metro is cheap which is a good thing, and there is a nice architecture and places to go to.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 17✈️2h$1,423 / mo24Mbps×Generally favorable on Antalya, but not perfect. The weather was excellent (~26 C almost every day) and the nature of the city is absolutely stunning. The mountains on the west side of the city seem to just explode out of the ocean and it's special to see. That said, the built environment is pretty uninspiring. The center of the city is full of interesting restaurants and shops, but outside of the old town it's not very exciting to look at. My primary complaint, however, is on public transit. It
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 34° 93° 32° 90°🥵AQI 37✈️1h$1,034 / mo7Mbps×Moscow is a great city, especially for young and adult people. Many business here and a lot of fun. Cheap taxi. Very clean city. Online delivery 24-hours for everything! Great and cheap subway (metro). Many cultural experience, good and different food. Fast Internet and free wifi in most of public places.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 57✈️2h$2,980 / mo11Mbps×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 29✈️3h$1,043 / mo30Mbps×I lived in Central Warsaw on and off for about 1 year pre and post-pandemic. Central Warsaw is the "New York of Eastern Europe". Pros: - Very convenient, safe and clean. - Lots of modern, futuristic buildings. Easy to find nice apartments. - Very bike-able. - Not too expensive. - Lots of coworking spaces. - Some startup culture and quite a few meetups (pre-pandemic). - Polish women are beautiful. - Interesting history. Cons: - Not much of a nomad scene. - Coworking spaces have a rather corpor
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 51✈️3h$1,773 / mo16Mbps×Rome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 32✈️1h$1,204 / mo🌇 Also went here106 people×Kyiv is a seriously not a good place for nomads to stay in. People don't speak english and are not friendly to foreigners at all, either you're white, asian, black, arab, latino, whatever. Food isn't really good specially when it comes to delivery, expensive and tasteless. The metro is cheap which is a good thing, and there is a nice architecture and places to go to.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 30° 85°🥵AQI 53✈️2h$1,511 / mo🌇 Also went here46 people×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 29✈️3h$1,043 / mo🌇 Also went here56 people×Pros: * Very clean - lots of hand sanitisation places and people wear masks + streets are clean * Great, cheap public transport * Very beautiful city and good parks * Pretty good Italian and asian food Cons: * Coffee shops seem to have mostly gone and been replaced with lots of Starbucks and other chains. * Food / drinks is very expensive in most parts - Local beer is quite cheap though * Barely any night life to speak of - everything closes at 11pm Other Info: COVID restrictions are very stri
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 17✈️3h$2,926 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Love this city, very romantic and cool in the summer. but it is difficult to find a nice airbnb. it is too much small or too expensive for the quality. you will def have great time here. but unfortunately, I had problem to make friends here. some how, It seemed the locals were not quite interested in having communication or making forein friends even in the co-working space. I don't think this is because of the language barrier but...I cant explain this well. anyway, the city is great to stay f
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 66✈️3h$2,465 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×I visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 74✈️3h$2,767 / mo🌇 Also went here44 people×Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 28° 82° 26° 79°AQI 63✈️3h$4,132 / mo🌇 Also went here59 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 31✈️4h$4,499 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
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