⭐️ Total score | 2.67/5 (Rank #680) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,507 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 25°C78°F (feels 25°C77°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 58% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy : 189 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 99 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Okay |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $113 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 😤 Very dense: 46k ppl/km² (5x5m) |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Bangladesh |
⏱ Average trip length | 25 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 25°C 78°F + 😊 Comfy (58%) = feels 25°C 77°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 189 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 99 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 1,000 BDT in USD | USD 9.37 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BDT 10,000 = USD 94 |
💻 Best coworking space | The Wave |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
📸 Visitors per year | 125,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 2,396 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 14,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,355 / year |
😤 Population density | 😤 very crowded: 5x5m (25m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 62% 👱♀️ 38% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,507 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,178 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,789 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $797 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $591 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,418 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $713 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $46 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $209 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 7524° warm | 8228° warm | 9736° hot | 10943° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 10440° hot | 10239° hot | 8630° warm | 7524° warm |
Real | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 9032° hot | 9435° hot | 9133° hot | 8731° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8228° very warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 62% | nice 55% | nice 55% | nice 58% | nice 67% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 74% | nice 62% | nice 64% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 1mm | dry 26mm | dry 43mm | rainy 239mm | rainy 455mm | rainy 330mm | rainy 404mm | rainy 203mm | rainy 210mm | dry 4mm | rainy 72mm |
Cloud | pockets 21% | pockets 14% | pockets 23% | pockets 34% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 88% | overcast 91% | overcast 93% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 58% | pockets 30% | pockets 30% |
Air quality | bad 242 US AQI | bad 218 US AQI | bad 175 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 122 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 99 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI | bad 179 US AQI | bad 206 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 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 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 500 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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