⭐️ Total score | 2.97/5 (Rank #222) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍75% liked it 👎25% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,887 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 20°C68°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 57% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 78 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Okay |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $700 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Sprawling: 3k ppl/km² (19x19m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Great |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Middle East |
🚩 Country | Lebanon |
⏱ Average trip length | 10 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 20°C 68°F + 😊 Comfy (57%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 78 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10,000 LBP in USD | USD 6.60 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LBP 100,000 = USD 66 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 10% |
💻 Best coworking space | Coworking +961 |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | AltCity |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍11% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,160,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 22,231 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 470,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,400 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 19x19m (361m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 80% 👱♀️ 20% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Beirut Flats |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | MEA |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,887 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,947 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,587 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,311 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,833 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,577 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,146 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $86 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $52 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $200 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Good hospitals
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Expensive
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° warm | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 6418° cool |
Real | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 6921° mild | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 6418° cool |
Humidity | nice 54% | nice 63% | nice 63% | nice 63% | nice 64% | nice 67% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 66% | nice 62% | nice 54% | nice 57% |
Rain | rainy 257mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 114mm | rainy 56mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 1mm | dry 0mm | dry 13mm | dry 9mm | dry 39mm | rainy 243mm |
Cloud | cloudy 58% | pockets 33% | cloudy 50% | pockets 32% | pockets 17% | pockets 13% | pockets 12% | pockets 12% | pockets 16% | pockets 23% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 68% |
Air quality | okay 72 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 267 people | 233 people | 200 people | 311 people | 375 people | 433 people | 314 people | 433 people | 371 people |
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I rented a house at the bottom of Mount Kassioun for a few months in 2004, in the French-style, newer part of Damascus, near the US Embassy. There's also the walled (with several different entrances) ancient, warren-like, oval-shaped city, which is about a mile across with lots of markets, small hotels and restaurants. I hear post-war Damascus, unlike Aleppo, is fairly intact.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 77😷🚕3h$3,751 / mo×Haifa is amazing but DO NOT COME HERE. I Repeat DO NOT COME HERE THIS PLACE SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 87😷✈️10min$4,996 / mo13Mbps×Not quite as bad as Paphos, but still quite ugly and empty feeling, and, as with everywhere in Cyprus, way too expensive for what you get.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 48✈️16min$4,374 / mo8Mbps×One of my favourite places to visit. Best vegetarian food in the world.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 78😷✈️17min$5,396 / mo13Mbps×Much more livable that I expected. Downtown is a bit dusty and unclean, but suburbs are great, with lots of restaurants and malls. Furthermore Jordan is smaller than it seems, there is basically one road crossing the country from North to South and you can always visit Petra or the beaches of Aqaba in a daytrip. Just avoid Ramadan as it can be very annoying for foreigners with all the restrictions.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 62°AQI 26✈️18min$2,268 / mo7Mbps×It's not an attractive city, and prices are not really that great. You can get to great beaches, and if you have a car the mountains have some beautiful hikes, but I would not list it as the best of cities. Most remote workers seem to be Russians fleeing the war.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 105😷✈️20min$4,064 / mo8Mbps×Dubai is good if you’ve figured out a way to pay 0 income tax and live in 2 places (away doing vacations during the summer) - bonus if you don’t spend money on alcohol. Nightlife is amazing, especially if you’re a woman. Free unlimited drinks for ladies, open bar, no catch, in two clubs in Media One Tower on Thursday. There is no place in the world that offers this. My female friends love Dubai because of these types of deals lol. The easiest way to waste money here is by buying drinks.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 57✈️3h$3,729 / mo8Mbps×Dear travelers, I'm from Istanbul. I can provide you some guidance. Istanbul is a fairly advanced metropolis in terms of transportation, to start. Don't limit yourself to staying in motels near old mosques. You may also like locations in the city's north like Saryer and Beykoz. You may get an Istanbul city card for 6 liras, and with the remaining $20 you load onto it, you can ride the bus 35–40 times. Even if months pass, your money on the card will not be lost. In actuality, the Taksim distri
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 27✈️1h$2,038 / mo6Mbps×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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 27✈️5h$5,156 / mo16Mbps×Much more livable that I expected. Downtown is a bit dusty and unclean, but suburbs are great, with lots of restaurants and malls. Furthermore Jordan is smaller than it seems, there is basically one road crossing the country from North to South and you can always visit Petra or the beaches of Aqaba in a daytrip. Just avoid Ramadan as it can be very annoying for foreigners with all the restrictions.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 62°AQI 26✈️18min$2,268 / mo7Mbps×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 7° 45° 7° 44°AQI 3✈️3h$6,238 / mo13Mbps×As a local, born and bred Joburger, I can tell you that there is a lot to love about this city if you know where to look. For the most part, it's orientated around suburbian living. The main city (Johannesburg CBD) is for the most part a no-go because of crime, but if you know some locals you should definitely check it out there are amazing restaurants, theatres and museums to experience there. Having lived here for 30+ years, I'd recommend checking out Sandton CBD, restaurants in Linden, Wand
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 29° 84°AQI 104😷✈️9h$2,855 / mo6Mbps×Cali has beautiful weather and kind, friendly people. You will need to use Spanish here so it is a great place to learn. Locals are very patient with novice speakers. The city has many green spaces and weekend travel to the Pacific region and Coffee country is possible as well as inexpensive flights to other major cities in Colombia. Salsa is king here so it is worth taking lessons, as this is a major part of the city's nightlife. You can live quite cheaply here but expect foreign or imported fo
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 144😷✈️16h$1,460 / mo6Mbps×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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 49✈️19h$5,628 / mo11Mbps×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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels -1° 30° 1° 35°AQI 26✈️4h$3,747 / mo19Mbps×Dear travelers, I'm from Istanbul. I can provide you some guidance. Istanbul is a fairly advanced metropolis in terms of transportation, to start. Don't limit yourself to staying in motels near old mosques. You may also like locations in the city's north like Saryer and Beykoz. You may get an Istanbul city card for 6 liras, and with the remaining $20 you load onto it, you can ride the bus 35–40 times. Even if months pass, your money on the card will not be lost. In actuality, the Taksim distri
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 27✈️1h$2,038 / 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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 2° 36° 3° 38°AQI 109😷✈️3h$2,324 / mo🌇 Also went here33 people×Dubai is good if you’ve figured out a way to pay 0 income tax and live in 2 places (away doing vacations during the summer) - bonus if you don’t spend money on alcohol. Nightlife is amazing, especially if you’re a woman. Free unlimited drinks for ladies, open bar, no catch, in two clubs in Media One Tower on Thursday. There is no place in the world that offers this. My female friends love Dubai because of these types of deals lol. The easiest way to waste money here is by buying drinks.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 57✈️3h$3,729 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×It´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 42✈️3h$5,142 / mo🌇 Also went here34 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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels -1° 30° 1° 35°AQI 26✈️4h$3,747 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️4h$4,857 / mo🌇 Also went here44 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 41°AQI 24✈️4h$6,161 / mo🌇 Also went here46 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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 2° 36° 4° 40°AQI 50✈️4h$5,676 / mo🌇 Also went here51 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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 27✈️5h$5,156 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×I'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️5h$3,444 / mo🌇 Also went here39 people×Bangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 82°AQI 85😷✈️9h$2,209 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×Just arrived in KL, we are 30/35yrs+, a married couple and digital nomads, and wow.. What a city! This is the New York City of Asia. These appartments are epic. Grand views, very affordable, luxurious! You would pay 10-fold for the same deal in NYC or Tokyo or Dubai. And the food is fantastic. Indian, Malay, Indo, Chinese, American, European. The world is here!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵AQI 38✈️10h$1,757 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 4✈️12h$4,405 / mo🌇 Also went here36 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 46✈️12h$6,186 / mo🌇 Also went here35 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 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 25✈️16h$7,169 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×