⭐️ Total score | 2.18/5 (Rank #899) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $5,968 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 40Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 13°C55°F (feels 13°C55°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 70% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 6 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 28 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $6,634 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Switzerland |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 40 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 13°C 55°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 13°C 55°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 6 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 28 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Puplinge |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Lancy |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CHF 100 = USD 111 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Boreal Coffee Shop |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,150,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 22,040 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 190,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $79,609 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Digitec |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ryanair |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Swiss |
🏥 Best hospital | Beaulieu |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,968 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,838 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $9,154 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $2,615 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,811 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,680 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,050 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $178 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $88 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $293 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $28 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $11 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $27,130 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $29 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $12 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $4,328 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $14,553 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $65,337 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 362° cold | 341° cold | 468° cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 6116° cool | 7021° mild | 6820° mild | 5714° cool | 5513° cool | 394° cold | 373° cold |
Real | 352° very cold | 331° very cold | 468° cold | 468° cold | 5614° cool | 6116° cool | 6921° mild | 6820° mild | 5714° cool | 5513° cool | 394° very cold | 373° very cold |
Humidity | nice 36% | nice 34% | nice 30% | too dry 29% | nice 35% | nice 38% | nice 39% | nice 37% | nice 38% | nice 35% | nice 37% | nice 38% |
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Rain | rainy 119mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 80mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 149mm | rainy 125mm | rainy 151mm | rainy 106mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 135mm |
Cloud | pockets 45% | pockets 39% | pockets 26% | pockets 24% | pockets 38% | pockets 33% | pockets 34% | pockets 23% | pockets 28% | pockets 28% | pockets 37% | pockets 40% |
Air quality | clean 45 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 587 people | 431 people | 800 people | 740 people | 625 people | 886 people | 933 people | 643 people | 554 people | 543 people | 382 people | 764 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 49°✈️11min$6,958 / mo37Mbps×2k/month is not enough to have a good lifestyle. With my gf, as a locals, we have 5k a month for 2 people, and we don't go to the restaurant each week.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°✈️12min$3,522 / mo44Mbps×Beautiful city and well worth a weekend trip. Pretty safe in most areas, though you should keep an eye on your belongings at the Porta Palazzo market. One thing worth noting is that the air quality can be quite bad, and the drivers are also quite erratic. Probably wouldn't live in Turin long-term, but it's worth a visit for sure.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 8° 46°AQI 29✈️14min$4,097 / mo23Mbps×It's a pretty awesome place and next year will definitely stay for longer. So clean, has amazing people, and great culture
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 29✈️18min$6,098 / mo86Mbps×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 34✈️33min$5,004 / mo112Mbps×It's a pretty awesome place and next year will definitely stay for longer. So clean, has amazing people, and great culture
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 29✈️18min$6,098 / mo86Mbps×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 36✈️50min$5,060 / mo99Mbps×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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 3✈️20min$4,795 / mo79Mbps×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 45✈️2h$3,477 / mo125Mbps×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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 38✈️1h$3,728 / mo89Mbps×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°AQI 31✈️55min$6,208 / mo103Mbps×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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 36✈️50min$5,060 / mo🌇 Also went here192 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°AQI 31✈️55min$6,208 / mo🌇 Also went here190 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°✈️56min$5,515 / mo🌇 Also went here126 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 51°AQI 53😷✈️60min$5,399 / mo🌇 Also went here218 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 32✈️1h$4,341 / mo🌇 Also went here123 people×Vienna is a great place to visit but do not DN here. The internet is either awful of non-existent—even in coffee shops.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 9✈️1h$3,831 / mo🌇 Also went here128 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 38✈️1h$3,728 / mo🌇 Also went here164 people×Budapest was on my list about cities for living. I stayed for 7 days and was a little disappointed People are not very friendly, lots os places very dirty, people smoke a lot and the costs isn't affordable as people indicated here. Its a beautiful place, walkable, people have a good level of education, lots of things to do, but not as i imagined. Even so its a nice place.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 45✈️1h$2,408 / mo🌇 Also went here130 people×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 26✈️1h$3,554 / mo🌇 Also went here112 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 45✈️2h$3,477 / mo🌇 Also went here172 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°✈️8h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here140 people×A dystopian cyberpunk metropolis, a veritable Night City, both chaotic and well run, livable yet poisonous. Follow the classic advice: stay near the BTS, skyscraper condo, work from mall libraries, cafes, and commons, don’t be outside. Outsource your chores. On a western salary or with savings, you’ll be playing life on easy mode. Focus your energy on meeting people, honing your body, and learning new skills. There’s a reason it’s number 1. You can disagree, but try to find it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 43° 109° 35° 94°🥵AQI 83😷✈️12h$1,348 / mo🌇 Also went here152 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵✈️14h$4,479 / mo🌇 Also went here125 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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