⭐️ Total score | 2.75/5 (Rank #1115) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,678 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C85°F (feels 33°C91°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 75% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 93 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $177 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Good |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | East Timor |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75%) = feels 33°C 91°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 93 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | TELEMOR |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 190,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,126 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Qantas |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qantas |
🏥 Best hospital | Clinic Lanud |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,678 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,116 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,814 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $804 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $500 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $198 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $739 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $35 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 25 listings) | $1,114 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 9736° hot | 5714° cool | 9032° hot | 5714° cool | 9133° hot | 5915° cool | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 5915° cool | 9736° hot | 5915° cool | 9535° hot |
Real | 8429° very warm | 5815° cool | 8228° very warm | 5714° cool | 8429° very warm | 5815° cool | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 5815° cool | 8630° very warm | 5915° cool | 8429° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 86% | nice 42% | sweaty 84% | nice 37% | sweaty 71% | nice 37% | nice 66% | nice 67% | nice 36% | sweaty 74% | nice 40% | sweaty 85% |
Rain | rainy 286mm | rainy 235mm | rainy 229mm | rainy 174mm | dry 27mm | dry 45mm | dry 9mm | dry 15mm | dry 27mm | rainy 51mm | rainy 203mm | rainy 254mm |
Cloud | cloudy 87% | overcast 90% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 51% | pockets 45% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 89% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
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