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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 228 reviews |
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| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Ecuador |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 13 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌧 21°C 70°F + 💦 Humid (79%) + 💨 3km/h = feels like 21°C 70°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 US AQI equal to / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 93 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Grun |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe de Ñucallacta |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Cafe Eucalyptus |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Hotel Carvallo |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 390,000 people |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AsWeSit |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Santa Inés |
| legal weedno-beachairportnon-touristymildmild nowclean airgood air qualityslow internethigh humiditymany womenfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $2,223 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,259 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,567 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $733 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $700 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $66 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $2,112 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $99 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $3 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.50 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
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| Feels like | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7021° mild |
| Real temperature | 6619° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6317° cool | 6317° cool | 6317° cool | 6720° mild | 6619° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | comfy 82% | comfy 86% | comfy 84% | comfy 86% | comfy 84% | damp 90% | damp 86% | damp 86% | comfy 82% | comfy 88% | comfy 87% | comfy 88% |
| Rain | not rainy 49mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 58mm | not rainy 30mm | rainy 122mm | not rainy 26mm | not rainy 26mm | not rainy 43mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 81mm |
| Cloud cover | cloudy 70% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 87% |
| Air quality | clean 27 AQI | clean 45 AQI | clean 49 AQI | clean 34 AQI | bad 93 AQI | bad 93 AQI | bad 93 AQI | clean 44 AQI | clean 41 AQI | clean 36 AQI | clean 39 AQI | clean 31 AQI |
| UV Index | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI |
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✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBT friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
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