⭐️ Total score | 3.26/5 (Rank #356) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,475 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 12Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 30°C86°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 89% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 20 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $704 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Mexico |
⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (89%) = feels 30°C 86°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 20 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Telcel |
💸 100 MXN in USD | USD 5.01 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MXN 10,000 = USD 501 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Casasola Café & Brunch |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 81,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,444 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Linio |
🏠 Apartment listings | VivaNuncios |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | InterJet |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,475 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $653 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,449 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $414 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $259 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $123 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,013 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $47 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8630° warm | 9535° hot | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 9535° hot | 9032° hot | 8228° warm |
Real | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7826° warm | 7926° warm | 8228° very warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm |
Humidity | nice 59% | nice 66% | nice 61% | nice 62% | nice 65% | nice 67% | nice 69% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 75% | nice 68% | nice 64% | nice 64% |
Rain | dry 8mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 2mm | dry 12mm | dry 10mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 128mm | dry 36mm | dry 12mm | dry 1mm |
Cloud | pockets 28% | pockets 21% | pockets 29% | pockets 28% | pockets 17% | pockets 27% | pockets 29% | cloudy 50% | pockets 34% | pockets 23% | pockets 20% | pockets 39% |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 291 people | 286 people | 267 people | 333 people | 440 people | 225 people | 314 people | 350 people | 250 people | 320 people | 600 people | 433 people |
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Very laid back place, incredibly beautiful and cafes to work from everywhere. 100% recommended
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 61✈️12min$1,531 / mo12Mbps×Small area/beach, claustrophobic. I think enough to do entertainment wise. Just expensive due the mass amounts of CA residents/expats/business owners, wifi is also weak unless you are at a top place like Sayulita Hotel. Surf break is essentially one peak and crowded, the locals don't really share it. One week tops here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 20✈️41min$2,467 / mo11Mbps×It's a safe area of Mexico, and also even the people who try to sell you crap, 'vendors' is less aggressive here. I have done about 2.5 months total in PV (two separate trips). Airbnbs are plentiful near the centro and december 5, more expensive in the romantic zone and even more expensive in Sayulita. But central PV is pretty cheap, even inland from Hotel Zone is nice and cheap. Roads and walkways are narrow and horrible. Internet is OK. If you stay in PV central, the beach isn't so great for s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 20✈️44min$2,119 / mo14Mbps×Good city to live in, welcoming to foreigners. Lived here for decades and always felt welcome by the people. Cost of living is low, only negative thing is that it is relarively new, with no real historic areas, and there isn’t as much to do as there is in other larger cities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 33° 91° 32° 90°🥵AQI 224😷✈️57min$1,307 / mo6Mbps×Great place. My fifth time here. Nice weather all year around and good food. Prices are good as well and internet has been consistently fast. Before you go, look up the neighbourhood as some places aren't safe.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 43✈️58min$1,214 / mo7Mbps×I have stayed in Cuidad de Guanajuato on two separate occasions in 2020 (February and December) for a total of about a week. Overall, I spent around a month in Guanajuato state in 2020. In that time I spent most of my time in El Tigre, Xoconostle, and Yuriria. We really fell in love with Cuidad de Guanajuato. Having a major university in the city really changes the atmosphere and makes communicating a lot easier than in the rural areas like El Tigre. I was able to get by on my “two year old
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 31✈️1h$1,373 / mo5Mbps×This is a very charming old town with really beautiful infrastracture and bakeries. I stayed in one of the traditional villas with a balcony overlooking the entire town. I love hanging around in the coffee shop, and even starbucks looks artesanal. The weather can get really cold at night so best make sure that you have a heater in the accomodation you are in. It is actually quite cold that you really cant stay at the balcony to enjoy the view too long. Internet is okay, safety is okay.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 34✈️1h$1,716 / mo7Mbps×Stayed here for about a month. Queretaro is a great foodie place, and you'll enjoy the old colonial city and a view of the aqueduct. The weather is favorable, safety is high, middle class majority and also very walkable. But aside from that, it can get really boring like a mexican suburbia. It is like a watered-down version of mexican culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 31✈️1h$1,166 / mo6Mbps×One of the top 5 capital for industries and commerce, som of the most important companies have a sede in this city. Super easy to fly around the world. Wonderful places to visit for families or alome. Friendly people and it is the capitol of the comedy in Mexico.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 31° 88°🥵AQI 85😷✈️1h$1,364 / mo7Mbps×I really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 28✈️2h$1,559 / mo11Mbps×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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 31° 88° 29° 84°AQI 69✈️2h$4,849 / mo66Mbps×Very laid back place, incredibly beautiful and cafes to work from everywhere. 100% recommended
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 61✈️12min$1,531 / mo12Mbps×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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 28° 83°AQI 53✈️5h$5,660 / mo34Mbps×Touristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$1,577 / mo6Mbps×Great place. My fifth time here. Nice weather all year around and good food. Prices are good as well and internet has been consistently fast. Before you go, look up the neighbourhood as some places aren't safe.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 43✈️58min$1,214 / mo7Mbps×Loved this city! It is not big although has great nightlife, coworkings, amazing streetart and is quite cheap. Although, when I visited in December 2021 they had problems with garbage removal.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 7✈️2h$1,382 / mo7Mbps×Overall, a pretty great place. Good restaurants and many breweries. Solid entertainment. It has all four seasons and lots of sunshine. Some homelessness issues downtown, like most cities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌫 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 22✈️3h$4,003 / mo62Mbps×Small area/beach, claustrophobic. I think enough to do entertainment wise. Just expensive due the mass amounts of CA residents/expats/business owners, wifi is also weak unless you are at a top place like Sayulita Hotel. Surf break is essentially one peak and crowded, the locals don't really share it. One week tops here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 20✈️41min$2,467 / mo11Mbps×I grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 20✈️4h$5,076 / mo55Mbps×I really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 28✈️2h$1,559 / mo🌇 Also went here58 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 31° 88° 29° 84°AQI 69✈️2h$4,849 / mo🌇 Also went here41 people×Las Vegas is a great tourist destination for me personally. The strip contains every amenities that I need and also there is a lot of stuff to do there without going away from the strip. Las Vegas is inside of a desert so expect it to be really hot in the summer. Otherwise than that, the strip located in Vegas has many things to do, from going to concerts, fancy restaurants, gambling (if that's your thing), attractions (stratosphere, high roller), entertainments, and so many more things to do th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 38° 101°🥵AQI 43✈️2h$3,838 / mo🌇 Also went here32 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 22✈️3h$7,075 / mo🌇 Also went here39 people×Touristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$1,577 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 22✈️4h$5,131 / mo🌇 Also went here38 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 28° 83°AQI 53✈️5h$5,660 / mo🌇 Also went here50 people×Lived here for about 3 months as a female. The climate is amazing as it is the City of Eternal Spring. Very reasonable prices everywhere. I stayed in Poblado, but about a 25 minute walk from all the action of Poblado. Walking on the main roads during the day was fine. The local people are amazingly nice. However, once night falls, you have to be careful here. Do not walk on quiet streets. Leave your valuables at home and do not ever show your mobile phone outside on the street. Use an Uber at ni
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 74✈️5h$1,045 / mo🌇 Also went here32 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 18✈️12h$5,175 / mo🌇 Also went here46 people×Good: - Great local food - Portuguese people are amazingly friendly - Vibrant DN community. It's like the city has been overtaken by remote workers. You will see everyone working on their laptop everywhere you go. - Amazing views whenever you want; you can just get a beer and climb to one of the viewpoints to see the sunset. Easy and magical. - Super cheap Ubers, easy subway Bad: - Housing prices. I'm not kidding, it's the worst I've ever seen. Ultra overpriced. I guess that's the problem when
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 27✈️12h$2,390 / mo🌇 Also went here38 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 23✈️13h$5,947 / mo🌇 Also went here35 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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 32✈️13h$4,600 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 30✈️13h$3,622 / mo🌇 Also went here44 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 39° 102° 31° 88°🥵AQI 68✈️20h$1,268 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×