⭐️ Total score | 3.51/5 (Rank #19) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍80% liked it 👎20% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Good |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,420 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 8Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C74°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 75% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 82 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 143 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $142 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
😤 People density | 🤨 Busy: 11k ppl/km² (10x10m) |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | India |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (75%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 82 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 143.5 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 INR in USD | USD 1.21 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | INR 10,000 = USD 121 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7% |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | 91 Springboard |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Moonlighting |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍17% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 10,257,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 196,575 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 17,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,706 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 10x10m (100m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 60% 👱♀️ 40% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Quick |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | IndiGo |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,420 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,208 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,842 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $812 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $603 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,556 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $794 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $164 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Family friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 10440° hot | 11345° scorching | 10943° scorching | 11144° scorching | 10641° scorching | 9133° hot | 7926° warm | 7021° mild |
Real | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8831° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 10038° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 7826° warm | 7021° mild |
Humidity | nice 57% | nice 43% | too dry 28% | too dry 15% | nice 40% | nice 44% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 80% | nice 46% | nice 40% | nice 47% |
Rain | dry 28mm | dry 6mm | dry 8mm | dry 7mm | rainy 107mm | dry 30mm | rainy 305mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 241mm | dry 45mm | dry 0mm | dry 4mm |
Cloud | pockets 21% | pockets 10% | clear 8% | pockets 16% | pockets 31% | pockets 32% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 66% | clear 9% | pockets 11% | pockets 32% |
Air quality | bad 272 US AQI | bad 221 US AQI | bad 173 US AQI | bad 171 US AQI | bad 173 US AQI | bad 155 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI | bad 206 US AQI | bad 293 US AQI | bad 334 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 940 people | 667 people | 836 people | 600 people | 500 people | 360 people | 460 people | 489 people | 580 people | 820 people | 927 people | 750 people |
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