⭐️ Total score | 2.97/5 (Rank #211) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,583 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C74°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 66% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 42 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 42 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Very low |
⚡️ Power grid | Okay |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Bad |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $79 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | Senegal |
⏱ Average trip length | 11 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (66%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 42 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 1,000 XOF in USD | USD 1.65 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | XOF 100,000 = USD 165 |
💻 Best coworking space | Jokkolabs |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $948 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Kenya Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | emirates |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,583 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,103 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,622 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $749 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $773 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,078 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $597 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $36 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $35 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $153 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | nice 60% | nice 66% | nice 79% | nice 85% | nice 87% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 73% | nice 64% |
Rain | dry 1mm | dry 0mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 0mm | dry 4mm | dry 11mm | rainy 171mm | rainy 84mm | dry 10mm | dry 0mm | dry 1mm |
Cloud | pockets 44% | pockets 44% | pockets 11% | pockets 23% | pockets 32% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 88% |
Air quality | clean 0 US AQI | bad 195 US AQI | bad 195 US AQI | bad 195 US AQI | bad 195 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 267 people | 333 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 31✈️2h$1,913 / mo23Mbps×I live here with my girlfriend close to Santa Cruz now for around 1 year. We lived before in Alicante and Gran Canaria. Lots to discover if you like Hiking or Surfing. Nomad scene is here with a couple of Meetups and Activities if you look for it. It's relative cheap compare to West Europe. Food is difficult to find Restaurants what you can eat well. Pros: Weather always perfect even in winter It's an Island, so there are many beaches 2 Airports with many flights all over Europe Fresh Frui
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 24✈️2h$2,775 / mo27Mbps×I can recommend Fuerteventura (specifically El Cotillo) if you like surfing, village vibes, yoga, and watersports. As for places in El Cotillo, Cocoworking seems great, also Triton's Coffee Lab for work and food. I stayed in Corralejo, but it feels much more touristy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 33✈️2h$2,208 / mo21Mbps×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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 63✈️6h$5,429 / mo19Mbps×Bangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 51°AQI 32✈️8h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×December 2022: Nairobi is a city less walkable than Bangkok, worse infrastructure than the Eastern European province, a non-service culture that would rival Germany, WiFi & 3G/4G like in rural Kyrgyzstan (the kind of where you walk with your phone in your stretched out hand)…. All of that you get for almost US-level prices. Nah, I didn’t have a good time. It feels utterly derelict and careless. Zero things to do except paying through your nose for Safari stuff. Although the people are ver
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 55✈️8h$1,750 / mo🌇 Also went here9 people×👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
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