⭐️ Total score | 2.79/5 (Rank #583) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $950 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 9Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 32°C90°F (feels 28°C82°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 0% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 135 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $142 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | India |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 90°F + 🌵 Too dry (0%) = feels 28°C 82°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 135 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 INR in USD | USD 1.22 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | INR 10,000 = USD 122 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7% |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Coffee Day |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 650,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,706 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | IndiGo |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air India |
🏥 Best hospital | Sparsh Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $950 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $477 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $922 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $263 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $541 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $686 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $97 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $25 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $22 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $140 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $1,224 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $1 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $1 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8630° warm | 9133° hot | 11747° scorching | 12250° scorching | 12652° scorching | 11546° scorching | 11848° scorching | 11747° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10239° hot | 8831° hot | 7725° warm |
Real | 8228° very warm | 8630° very warm | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm |
Humidity | nice 69% | nice 59% | nice 64% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 95% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 76% | nice 72% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 6mm | dry 26mm | rainy 136mm | rainy 212mm | rainy 242mm | rainy 195mm | rainy 377mm | rainy 100mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 91mm |
Cloud | pockets 19% | clear 9% | pockets 20% | pockets 39% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 87% | overcast 93% | overcast 91% | overcast 93% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 56% | pockets 37% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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