⭐️ Total score | 2.76/5 (Rank #1138) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,199 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C81°F (feels 32°C90°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 91% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 70 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $197 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Honduras |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 27°C 81°F + 🥵 Sweaty (91%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 70 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Tigo |
💸 100 HNL in USD | USD 4.07 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | HNL 10,000 = USD 407 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 66,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,361 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,199 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,493 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,649 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $757 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $560 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $158 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,218 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $57 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 108 listings) | $2,640 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $87 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Feels | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9736° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot |
Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 85% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 81% |
Rain | rainy 198mm | rainy 110mm | rainy 80mm | rainy 63mm | dry 40mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 86mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 105mm | rainy 194mm | rainy 386mm | rainy 136mm |
Cloud | pockets 49% | pockets 30% | pockets 25% | pockets 46% | pockets 40% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 53% | pockets 45% | pockets 37% | cloudy 66% | pockets 39% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 39° 102° 30° 85°🥵AQI 9✈️19min$3,458 / mo7Mbps×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 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵AQI 70✈️35min$1,333 / mo5Mbps×Everything is for American tourists. Prices are sometimes even higher than in the US. Beach is beautiful, there's nothing to do downtown. Cenotes, archaeological zone are cool, worth a visit. Covid is like it doesn't exist. Internet was cool in Selina. Cool to stay for a couple of nights of chilling, but not for living.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 71°AQI 9✈️39min$1,403 / mo3Mbps×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?
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 9✈️38min$1,063 / mo4Mbps×Famous city, the historical capital and crown jewel of Peru. While the food does not compare to what is available in Lima, man the hiking opportunities are above and beyond. The boleto touristica is fantastic, for around $50 USD you get access to 11 archeological sites (all worth it), a cultural show (worth it), and 4 museums (I did not go). You have the option of hiring a tour guide, who will arrange transport and lunch for around 15-50 USD depending who you go with, but I decided to go it alon
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 54✈️4h$4,171 / mo46Mbps×Antigua is a fun, historic and compact city with enough international visitors to make it comfortable for any expat for digital nomad. In recent decades the city has evolved into an international Spanish-learning destination, for the high quality of life, tourism amenities, access to nature, and low cost. It's also a few hour drive from one of the most beautiful lakes I've ever seen: Lake Atitlan.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 78😷✈️2h$1,166 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 13° 55° 14° 56°AQI 25✈️6h$6,829 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 17✈️11h$5,101 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 24✈️11h$4,165 / mo🌇 Also went here12 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 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 83°AQI 30✈️12h$3,996 / mo🌇 Also went here9 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 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 26° 80°AQI 39✈️13h$3,175 / mo🌇 Also went here9 people×Rome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 36° 97° 33° 92°🥵AQI 59✈️13h$4,302 / mo🌇 Also went here9 people×I am a Greek living abroad just the last couple of years. I accidentally discovered this page and noticed the comments below. What I can recommend to people considering living in Athens is to explore places a bit outside of the city center. I agree with people that there are many areas very close to the city center that are dirty and perhaps not very safe to walk around at night. Explore areas like Glyfada, Voula, Kifisia, Marousi, Psychiko, Marousi and you will be amazed with how different it i
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 31° 88° 31° 88°🥵AQI 42✈️14h$2,896 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×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 31✈️14h$1,201 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×I cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 65✈️22h$1,257 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×