⭐️ Total score |
0.5/5 (Rank #1345)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Bad |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,686 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🙂 Good: 21Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Freezing
: -5°C23°F (feels -7°C19°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
💦 Damp: 80%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Great: 3 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
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🤮 Food safety* |
Great
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
High |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Great
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$721 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Great |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 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 |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Russia |
⏱ Average trip length | 37 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 21 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 -5°C 23°F + 💦 Damp (80%) = feels -7°C 19°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 3 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.13 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 113 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Boulanger Coffee House |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 540,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 43% 👱♀️ 57% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Avito |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | UTair Aviation |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
🏥 Best hospital | Partners in Health |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,686 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,127 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,620 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $463 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $593 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,244 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $274 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $74 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $157 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $5,071 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
-18
-28° freezing |
-8
-22° freezing |
21
-6° freezing |
37
3° cold |
59
15° cool |
64
18° cool |
73
23° mild |
72
22° mild |
52
11° cool |
41
5° cold |
16
-9° freezing |
10
-12° freezing |
Real |
-8
-22°
freezing |
2
-17°
freezing |
27
-3°
freezing |
40
5°
very cold |
59
15°
cool |
64
18°
cool |
73
23°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
52
11°
cool |
43
6°
very cold |
23
-5°
freezing |
18
-8°
freezing |
Humidity |
nice 66% |
nice 70% |
damp 85% |
damp 81% |
nice 56% |
nice 68% |
nice 71% |
nice 76% |
damp 80% |
damp 75% |
damp 87% |
damp 84% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 35mm |
dry 47mm |
rainy 51mm |
dry 43mm |
dry 40mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 58mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 111mm |
dry 33mm |
rainy 64mm |
dry 45mm |
Cloud |
cloudy 89% |
overcast 93% |
overcast 94% |
cloudy 74% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 65% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 87% |
cloudy 85% |
overcast 97% |
overcast 95% |
Remote workers | 233 people | 400 people | 400 people | 200 people | 333 people | 200 people | 233 people | 229 people | 200 people | 267 people | 300 people | 280 people |
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