⭐️ Total score |
0.5/5 (Rank #1358)
|
👍 Quality of life score |
Bad |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $2,348 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 3Mbps (avg)
|
😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 36°C97°F (feels 45°C113°F)
|
💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 52%
|
👌 Safety |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$45 / mo
|
🙊 English speaking* |
Good |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | South Sudan |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 36°C 97°F + 😊 Comfy (52%) = feels 45°C 113°F
|
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 1,000 SDG in USD | USD 1.71 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | SDG 100,000 = USD 171 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Da Vinci |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 230,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $534 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 64% 👱♀️ 36% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 0% 👱♀️ 100% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Kenya Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | Aspen Medical Clinic Juba |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,348 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $753 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,139 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,008 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $859 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $194 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $99 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $116 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $0 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.00 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $0 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
84
29° warm |
84
29° warm |
88
31° hot |
86
30° warm |
82
28° warm |
81
27° warm |
81
27° warm |
81
27° warm |
81
27° warm |
82
28° warm |
82
28° warm |
84
29° warm |
Real |
88
31°
hot |
90
32°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
87
31°
hot |
83
29°
very warm |
82
28°
very warm |
80
27°
warm |
81
27°
warm |
81
27°
warm |
83
29°
very warm |
85
30°
very warm |
88
31°
hot |
Humidity |
too dry 21% |
too dry 15% |
too dry 21% |
nice 30% |
nice 38% |
nice 34% |
nice 41% |
nice 40% |
nice 40% |
nice 38% |
too dry 28% |
too dry 22% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 3mm |
dry 2mm |
dry 33mm |
rainy 103mm |
rainy 136mm |
rainy 105mm |
rainy 154mm |
rainy 161mm |
rainy 119mm |
rainy 167mm |
dry 35mm |
dry 10mm |
Cloud |
pockets 22% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 36% |
pockets 31% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 33% |
Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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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
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Mombasa proper is more popular with retirees than nomads, but Kilifi (~2 hours drive north, not listed here) is a bit of an emerging spot for African nomads, with a couple of nomad-friendly guesthouses (Distant Relatives, Salty's). It's party central over Christmas + NYE if that's your scene, otherwise quite chill and popular for kitesurfers too.
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In summer season, temperature will 31°C, feels like 36 or more, humidity is 90% even at 28°C. Nearly impossible to to work without a good AC. In rainy season, temperature drops under 30 and air quality becomes just terrible, leaving a window open will leave your floor black. Lots of places to rent, but very hard to close a long term rent deal due to landlords unwilling to close a deal remotely (cash only). Long term rentals are much more affordable than airbnb.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 30 ✈️1h $1,559 / mo 19 Mbps ×Visited Kampala a few times. I can't say I would really recommend it for nomads. It's quite chaotic, traffic is rough, not much of a food/cafe/coworking scene, not very scenic or much to do. The socializing is great - Ugandans are super friendly and love to party. But for remote work, I'd go elsewhere.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 30 ✈️1h $1,559 / mo 🌇 Also went here5 people ×If you don't like chaotic developing world cities and don't want to be exposed to issues like petty crime, poverty, etc. - stop here, you won't like Addis one bit. If you clicked here because you're a seasoned traveler coming in with eyes wide open that Ethiopia is (very) poor but the experience and empathy to make it work in order to have an amazing travel experience: you can make it work. Ethiopia is the most foreign experience I have ever felt coming from a Western perspective. Nonetheless th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73° AQI 82 😷 ✈️1h $1,112 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×I lived in Cairo for one month. The city has some problems with the traffic and poverty. But, the people, are the best that I ever meet (not the sellers). The food is amazing, everything is cheap. the uber is almost for free. The internet have some problems, but it'll depend of the area that you'll live. a lot of people speak English, even the apps have the option to read in English. The city is very safe, even for womans at 2AM on the street. Never, never, and never believe in any seller or an
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 83° ✈️4h $863 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×A nice quite city, full of statuses!, The place can be visited within a week at max, would recommend Ohrid next to visit
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50° AQI 63 😷 ✈️7h $5,036 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 71° AQI 30 ✈️14h $1,580 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60° ✈️15h $6,406 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I really enjoyed my trip to DC for one week. I did NOT feel comfortable walking around many places alone because there are a lot of mentally ill/drugged out people. During daylight with other people I felt fine. There are soo many restaurants, interesting boutique gyms, cool libraries and more. The variety you can find in DC is closer to NYC than you can find most places. The memorials are pretty cool. There are a lot of free museums which are impressive. I liked the Lincoln Memorial/Gettysburg
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65° ✈️15h $4,972 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61° AQI 33 ✈️16h $4,495 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×In it's current iteration, Houston is a wide-spread, vehicle dependent city and would be a difficult place to exist as a Nomad without a vehicle. Downtown Houston was once a desolate cluster of office buildings that was abandoned at sundown. But now, downtown is currently undergoing a transformation and will soon (5~ years) make for an inhabitable and nomad friendly destination.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82° 🥵 AQI 58 😷 ✈️18h $3,850 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×Lived in Antigua for over a year and I absolutely loved it! It´s called the city of eternal spring because the weather is like a perfect spring day all year round. There are two seasons, rainy and non-rainy but in rainy season (May-Oct) it only rains for 3-4 hours in the afternoon then stops. It makes everything lush and green which is another reason they call it the city of perpetual roses and eternal spring. It´s a small city so very easily to walk and see everything. If you escape the cente
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79° 🥵 ✈️18h $1,712 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 58° ✈️18h $5,586 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° ✈️19h $2,022 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66° ✈️19h $5,956 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×
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