⭐️ Total score | 2.29/5 (Rank #657) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,448 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 21°C70°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 64% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 68 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 99 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: 6k ppl/km² (1 per 13x13m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Hangzhou is fast averaging 32 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~4 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 21°C 70°F + 😊 Comfy (64%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 68 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 100 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 coworking space | Allface |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 900,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 17,248 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 13x13m (169m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 79% 👱♀️ 21% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Eastern |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
🏥 Best hospital | North American International Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,448 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $973 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,195 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $627 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $631 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,454 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $392 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $30 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $48 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $128 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $19,613 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 7926° warm | 8429° warm | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° warm | 7021° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool |
Real | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 6619° mild | 7926° warm | 8329° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8530° very warm | 7021° mild | 6217° cool | 5614° cool |
Humidity | nice 30% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 43% | nice 46% | nice 44% | nice 45% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 36% | nice 33% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 10mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 131mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 169mm | rainy 280mm | rainy 192mm | rainy 154mm | rainy 108mm | rainy 63mm | dry 46mm | dry 6mm |
Cloud | pockets 31% | pockets 44% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 52% | pockets 41% | pockets 48% | pockets 43% | pockets 24% |
Air quality | bad 152 US AQI | bad 144 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 133 US AQI | bad 155 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 360 people | 300 people | 400 people | 225 people | 400 people | 400 people | 280 people | 200 people | 240 people |
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