⭐️ Total score | 2.45/5 (Rank #296) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,558 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 81% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 83 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 5k ppl/km² (1 per 14x14m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Guangzhou is fast averaging 32 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~4 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (81%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 84 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 9,075,500 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 173,932 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 14,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 14x14m (196m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Eastern Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | CanAm International Medical Centre |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,558 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $885 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,314 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $661 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,255 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,132 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $475 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $59 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $205 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $22,079 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6820° mild | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 7926° warm | 7222° mild | 6820° mild |
Real | 6720° mild | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 7926° warm | 7222° mild | 6720° mild |
Humidity | too dry 23% | nice 30% | nice 37% | nice 37% | nice 40% | nice 44% | nice 40% | nice 44% | nice 39% | nice 36% | too dry 29% | nice 32% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 3mm | rainy 72mm | dry 47mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 200mm | rainy 266mm | rainy 125mm | rainy 261mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 63mm | dry 11mm | dry 45mm |
Cloud | pockets 28% | pockets 19% | pockets 47% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 61% | pockets 49% | cloudy 59% | pockets 39% | pockets 47% | pockets 40% | pockets 29% |
Air quality | bad 126 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 367 people | 325 people | 382 people | 756 people | 286 people | 257 people | 400 people | 267 people | 250 people | 520 people | 400 people | 543 people |
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