⭐️ Total score | 3.49/5 (Rank #181) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,577 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 2Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C73°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 68% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 113 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $700 / mo |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍75% liked it 👎25% disliked it |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
😤 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 | Okay |
🖥 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) | 2 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 23°C 73°F + 😊 Comfy (68%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 113 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Touch |
💸 10,000 LBP in USD | USD 6.59 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LBP 100,000 = USD 66 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 10% |
🚰 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 |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Beirut Flats |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | MEA |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,577 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,307 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,309 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $945 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $898 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $165 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $749 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $35 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 466 listings) | $1,435 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $47 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Good hospitals
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ 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 | 400 people | 300 people | 240 people | 200 people | 257 people | 333 people | 360 people | 267 people | 400 people | 267 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 28✈️18min$1,353 / mo7Mbps×Ehh, wasn't really impressed. The beach is ok. There's a surprisingly good Israeli restaurant. I guess if I wanted to launder Russian money in an ugly condo this would be a decent option, but Turkey or even Albanian coast are far more interesting...
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 51✈️20min$3,098 / mo8Mbps×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 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 19✈️1h$1,104 / mo7Mbps×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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 62✈️9h$1,625 / mo6Mbps×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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 19✈️1h$1,104 / mo🌇 Also went here32 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 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 30✈️2h$2,912 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 52✈️4h$3,821 / mo🌇 Also went here31 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 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 32✈️4h$5,658 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×I spent a month here in January. It's beautiful, and there are plenty of touristy things to do, however the city is very expensive. There are plenty of places to shop, which is the main reason why I went. There are also plenty of WeWorks scattered across the city if you need somewhere consistent to work. The people weren't rude to me, but that's because I always greet people in French before asking for help or information, so to avoid rudeness, I'd suggest learning basic greetings and how to ask
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 42✈️5h$4,872 / mo🌇 Also went here43 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 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 53✈️9h$1,292 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 57✈️12h$3,137 / mo🌇 Also went here28 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 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 10✈️12h$5,296 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×I've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 34✈️16h$7,094 / mo🌇 Also went here28 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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 68✈️16h$4,839 / mo🌇 Also went here22 people×