⭐️ Total score | 3.49/5 (Rank #176) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $733 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 8Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C85°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 83% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 25 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 64 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $326 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Sri Lanka |
⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 25 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 64 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | AirTel |
💸 1,000 LKR in USD | USD 2.82 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LKR 100,000 = USD 282 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Coco Veranda |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,130,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 21,656 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 650,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,910 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 57% 👱♀️ 43% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Durdans |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $733 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $525 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $617 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $176 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $169 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $16 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $630 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $30 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 776 listings) | $1,397 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $46 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $0 |
☕️ Coffee | $0 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ 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
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 9736° hot | 9736° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 10239° hot | 9736° hot | 9736° hot | 9334° hot | 9736° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 9535° hot |
Real | 8429° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 88% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 83% |
Rain | rainy 252mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 193mm | rainy 175mm | rainy 541mm | rainy 336mm | rainy 347mm | rainy 325mm | rainy 398mm | rainy 405mm | rainy 515mm | rainy 126mm |
Cloud | cloudy 82% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 88% | overcast 93% | overcast 97% | overcast 93% | overcast 91% | overcast 93% | cloudy 67% |
Air quality | bad 120 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 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 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 650 people | 700 people | 657 people | 486 people | 450 people | 267 people | 300 people | 333 people | 275 people | 333 people | 400 people | 400 people |
If you'd like to filter destinations based on their climate, try Nomad List's Climate Finder
Based on Colombo's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
Really quite hectic and not a very nice city. I wouldn't spend more than a day or two here, not much to see, and there aren't many places to work/eat/see. You're better off heading down to the beaches for some sunshine and beach as well as much faster WIFI.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 25🚕3h$678 / mo9Mbps×Have been in Weligama since Feb 25th and now I'm still here with the COVID-19 curfew going on. Before the curfew starts I was eager to get out of here because 1) it's too hot mid-day 2) tuktuk drivers are waiting around every corner asking "tuktuk?" and always horn at you when you're walking by the street - super annoying and 3) it's difficult to find workable wifi 4) everything just seemed super slow and it was hard to be productive. But after the curfew starts I actually like it way better be
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 25✈️10min$558 / mo8Mbps×Stayed a whole month in Fort Kochi area, eventually going to Ernakulam (downtown area). It is unarguably very different than rest of India, much more cleaner and with friendlier people. Beaches aren`t nice for bathing but are a great choice to catch sunsets everyday. Cost of living is dirty cheap and public transport is good. They even have a subway crossing the city with reminds me the BTS in Bangkok. Actually, Kochi to me is like a small and boring version of Bangkok, which is good if you need
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 78😷✈️41min$517 / mo30Mbps×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 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 63✈️3h$1,324 / mo28Mbps×I was in Dubai for 1 week, It's the best place for doing business and modern lifestyle, You can see an impressive infrastructure and what the mankind can build.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 39° 102° 33° 92°🥵AQI 256😷✈️4h$3,345 / mo8Mbps×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 63✈️4h$3,615 / mo60Mbps×Really quite hectic and not a very nice city. I wouldn't spend more than a day or two here, not much to see, and there aren't many places to work/eat/see. You're better off heading down to the beaches for some sunshine and beach as well as much faster WIFI.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 25🚕3h$678 / mo9Mbps×Putrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 48✈️3h$1,295 / mo11Mbps×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 59✈️3h$973 / mo24Mbps×Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$1,260 / mo25Mbps×Only thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87°🥵AQI 42✈️4h$956 / mo9Mbps×Mumbai, August 28-September 2, September 7, September 11 2019. Got a friend to pick me up at the airport, so I can't evaluate how well UBER works from the airport. Prepaid taxi from the airport is my usual recommendation, and if I was traveling tomorrow that is what I would do. Inside of Mumbai, UBER was my go-to app and worked well. Autos (aka 'Tuk-tuks' in some places) get around well and are cheap, some are also on Uber. Be aware that unless you use a service like UBER, as a foreigner, th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 40° 104° 32° 89°🥵AQI 42✈️2h$1,276 / mo27Mbps×Really quite hectic and not a very nice city. I wouldn't spend more than a day or two here, not much to see, and there aren't many places to work/eat/see. You're better off heading down to the beaches for some sunshine and beach as well as much faster WIFI.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 25🚕3h$678 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$1,260 / mo🌇 Also went here58 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 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 63✈️3h$1,324 / mo🌇 Also went here106 people×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 59✈️3h$973 / mo🌇 Also went here74 people×Putrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 48✈️3h$1,295 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 63✈️4h$3,615 / mo🌇 Also went here93 people×Only thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87°🥵AQI 42✈️4h$956 / mo🌇 Also went here56 people×I was in Dubai for 1 week, It's the best place for doing business and modern lifestyle, You can see an impressive infrastructure and what the mankind can build.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 39° 102° 33° 92°🥵AQI 256😷✈️4h$3,345 / mo🌇 Also went here64 people×The places to rent are not very good. Poor design and low quality furniture. You won't find one that comes with a good desk and chair. Most of them don't have a good place to put one even if you bring your own. Hard water is common and unpleasant. Can't walk around due to small roads, traffic, sometimes unfriendly stray dogs. It does have good restaurants, lots of variety from many international cuisines. Not that great for Indonesian food though. Probably better for a short visit rather than
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 79😷✈️6h$1,528 / mo🌇 Also went here58 people×Honestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 79😷✈️6h$1,316 / mo🌇 Also went here53 people×Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 21✈️10h$4,322 / mo🌇 Also went here53 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 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 31✈️11h$5,959 / mo🌇 Also went here52 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 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 36✈️11h$3,829 / mo🌇 Also went here67 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 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 30✈️12h$5,061 / mo🌇 Also went here56 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 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 29° 84°AQI 35✈️13h$2,598 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×