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| ⭐️ Total score | 117 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Panama |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 28°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (84%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 13 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 0 PAB in USD | USD 0.00 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PAB 100 = USD 100 |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👎5% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 7,400 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $13,680 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 65% 👱♀️ 35% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Panama |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Copa Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Almirante |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,277 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,084 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,704 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,058 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,348 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,412 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $905 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $110 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $112 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $10 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.94 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9032° hot |
| Real | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 84% |
| Rain | rainy 257mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 186mm | rainy 234mm | rainy 378mm | rainy 292mm | rainy 477mm | rainy 382mm | rainy 371mm | rainy 268mm | rainy 429mm | rainy 370mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 59% | cloudy 54% | pockets 46% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 55% |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 79°AQI 13✈️18min$2,932 / mo4MbpsPanama City is a B+ place to live: solid weather, amenities, safety, and cleanliness... but, it feels much like an American city due to the skyscrapers, urban sprawl, and the limited activities. If you're not shopping, eating at a restaurant, bar hopping, or going to a reggaeton club until 3am, there's not a whole lot else to do. The weather is remarkably consistent: everyday it will be 85F, it will be cloudy for a few hours including a 15-30 minute shower, and then it will be mostly sunny for
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 88°🥵AQI 13✈️30min$2,044 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 38✈️33min$4,734 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 13✈️36min$2,419 / mo5MbpsSafety score is honestly too high! I passed through Managua a few times during my time in Nicaragua, and it remains the sketchiest, dirtiest city I've personally seen in Latin America. It's also ungodly hot and smelly. Would not recommend staying here for any reason whatsoever.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 89°🥵AQI 13✈️43min$1,807 / mo4MbpsUngodly 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!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 33° 91°🥵AQI 149😷✈️49min$1,353 / mo5MbpsI mostly don't like it here. Possibly I am too used to USA or have not traveled enough. PRO: It is beautiful, with great natural resources, inexpensive rates & lots of activities to do. There are carriage rides & snorkling, beach events, etc. Lots & lots of great places for brunch or dinner & drinks. CONS: There's a strong cultural, economic & racial divide here. The locals see the tourist as distinctly different from them. It's hard to find any locals to have a conversation & just tre
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 104😷✈️1h$1,473 / mo5MbpsIf you have money, stay in Lomas. That's it. The other areas of the city which every Samantha, Bryan, and pink-haired person named Leaf have mentioned are all worth visiting and enjoying, but just stay in Lomas. Quiet, less population, no dust, and most importantly, you can avoid the broke Americans from Bushwick or WeHo who eat at Orinoco every night to save money.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 85😷✈️3h$1,901 / mo15MbpsAntigua is amazing, very safe and lots of amazing food to eat out at. Internet at the Airbnb was laggy at times, but some places might have better connections.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 35° 95° 33° 91°🥵AQI 159😷✈️23h$1,355 / mo28MbpsPros - extremely cheap (excl. housing), great transportation system (both subway and busses), great pastry shops Cons - expensive airbnbs, rude people who can be fairly racist towards blacks (worldcup was a tough time given how openly people were cursing about black people in bars and home get togethers I went to) and other south americans (weird superiority complex), a tad depressing given the current economic crises (almost everyone is going through a rough time so it is difficult to enjoy yo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️7h$1,765 / mo26MbpsI mostly don't like it here. Possibly I am too used to USA or have not traveled enough. PRO: It is beautiful, with great natural resources, inexpensive rates & lots of activities to do. There are carriage rides & snorkling, beach events, etc. Lots & lots of great places for brunch or dinner & drinks. CONS: There's a strong cultural, economic & racial divide here. The locals see the tourist as distinctly different from them. It's hard to find any locals to have a conversation & just tre
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 89😷✈️2h$1,987 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 31° 87°🥵AQI 38✈️26min$4,678 / mo39MbpsI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 31✈️5h$6,292 / mo48Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 34✈️11h$4,433 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°AQI 38🚕2h$3,441 / mo🌇 Also went here38 peopleAccording to the World Happiness Report, San José in Costa Rica is the 11th "happiest city" (in terms of how positively the inhabitants currently evaluate their lives on average) among 186 cities across the globe. In this ranking, the top cities have often a much higher cost of living.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 79°AQI 13✈️18min$2,932 / mo🌇 Also went here40 peoplePanama City is a B+ place to live: solid weather, amenities, safety, and cleanliness... but, it feels much like an American city due to the skyscrapers, urban sprawl, and the limited activities. If you're not shopping, eating at a restaurant, bar hopping, or going to a reggaeton club until 3am, there's not a whole lot else to do. The weather is remarkably consistent: everyday it will be 85F, it will be cloudy for a few hours including a 15-30 minute shower, and then it will be mostly sunny for
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 32° 90°🥵AQI 13✈️24min$2,686 / mo🌇 Also went here78 peopleI love Laureles which is calmer, lots of tress, great restaurants. I don't like Poblado which is noisier, more polluted and more party.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 104😷✈️1h$1,473 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleTouristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 30✈️2h$2,967 / mo🌇 Also went here42 peopleIf you have money, stay in Lomas. That's it. The other areas of the city which every Samantha, Bryan, and pink-haired person named Leaf have mentioned are all worth visiting and enjoying, but just stay in Lomas. Quiet, less population, no dust, and most importantly, you can avoid the broke Americans from Bushwick or WeHo who eat at Orinoco every night to save money.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 85😷✈️3h$1,901 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 31✈️5h$6,292 / mo🌇 Also went here57 peopleHow 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).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°AQI 27✈️7h$6,322 / mo🌇 Also went here42 peopleLisbon is not a fairytale of fine words, try the bureaucratic reality later tell me something, always remember the natives just want your money if you don't have it they are not there for you
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 28✈️11h$3,841 / mo🌇 Also went here43 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 33✈️12h$6,332 / mo🌇 Also went here57 peopleLived 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 27✈️12h$5,846 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleNomading 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 34✈️12h$5,285 / mo🌇 Also went here44 peopleA 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 52°AQI 24✈️12h$9,054 / mo🌇 Also went here53 peopleI agree so much with this review from 11 months ago. "A city right out of a dystopian novel" - that's what I was thinking on the way to the Airport after spending just a week in Bangkok. A city right out of a dystopian novel - soulless and cynical. The air is polluted and no trees are in sight. Its inhabitants manipulative and cold-hearted - hidden behind fake smiles. A Disney Land for senile retirees. Everything is for sale and nothing has value. The streets are filled with rats - both human o
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 45° 113° 34° 93°🥵AQI 80😷✈️23h$2,084 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 50✈️25h$5,621 / mo🌇 Also went here38 people
