⭐️ Total score | 2.42/5 (Rank #354) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,381 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 147Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 10°C51°F (feels 8°C46°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 72% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 47 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 43 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Very bad |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,813 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Sprawling: 3k ppl/km² (1 per 18x18m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Netherlands |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 147 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 10°C 51°F + 💦 Damp (72%) = feels 8°C 46°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 47 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 44 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Feijenoord |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Charlois |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 108 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.5% |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because Albert Heijn still doesn't accept CC) |
💻 Best coworking space | Rotterdam Startup Port |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Het Nieuwe Kantoor |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,300,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 24,914 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 620,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $45,753 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 18x18m (324m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Cool Blue |
🏠 Apartment listings | Marktplaats |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Transavia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | KLM |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,381 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,717 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,810 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,660 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,282 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,128 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,422 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $154 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $103 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $379 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $15 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $8,251 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $8 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $18,761 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $42,290 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $120,290 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 373° cold | 457° cold | 436° cold | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 394° cold |
Real | 415° very cold | 479° cold | 468° cold | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 6921° mild | 6820° mild | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 489° cold | 436° very cold |
Humidity | nice 42% | nice 41% | nice 38% | nice 35% | nice 39% | nice 38% | nice 43% | nice 40% | nice 39% | nice 41% | nice 43% | nice 43% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 80mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 54mm | dry 46mm | rainy 66mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 74mm | dry 27mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 74mm |
Cloud | cloudy 53% | pockets 45% | pockets 45% | pockets 37% | pockets 49% | pockets 50% | cloudy 51% | pockets 46% | pockets 44% | cloudy 52% | pockets 48% | cloudy 55% |
Air quality | clean 47 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI |
Remote workers | 533 people | 527 people | 480 people | 457 people | 733 people | 600 people | 440 people | 527 people | 460 people | 700 people | 660 people | 545 people |
If you'd like to filter destinations based on their climate, try Nomad List's Climate Finder
Based on Rotterdam's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
I study in Leiden, and I love it here! The city is beautiful, and quaint enough that you can bike from end to end in 10-15 minutes. Because it's a student town there's also a lot to do here, even for non-students. By West-European standards the prices are reasonable. Pretty much everyone speaks English fairly well, and Dutch is not too hard to pick up on. The location of Leiden in the Netherlands is also neat: 10 min by train to The Hague, 20-ish to Schiphol Airport, 30 min to Rotterdam, 40-ish
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°🚕51min$6,212 / mo44Mbps×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 38🚕2h$6,231 / mo103Mbps×As a very sociable expat who's been living here for the past 2 years, and with still no friends outside of work, I can say it's HARD making friends in Antwerp.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 24🚕3h$3,954 / mo45Mbps×Pros : * Everyone speaks in English. * Nice people, everyone is helpful. * Great airport, cheap flights. * Nice bars. Cons : * Weather is bad especially during winter, always cloudy, no sun. * Hard to make local friends, people are nice but distant. * Quite expensive to eat outside. * Most of the stores they don't accept Visa and Mastercard, you need to have Maestro card. * Housing is expensive and it's hard to find house.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 29🚕3h$4,085 / mo53Mbps×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 38🚕2h$6,231 / mo103Mbps×Super expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 10° 51°AQI 24✈️10min$3,757 / mo42Mbps×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 65😷✈️26min$5,409 / mo29Mbps×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 29✈️30min$5,022 / mo110Mbps×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️49min$3,741 / mo80Mbps×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 32✈️2h$5,078 / mo102Mbps×As a very sociable expat who's been living here for the past 2 years, and with still no friends outside of work, I can say it's HARD making friends in Antwerp.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 24🚕3h$3,954 / mo45Mbps×Husband and I spent one month here, and we didn’t like it, at all! There is a lot of litter and graffiti everywhere!!!! The entire city needs a good power wash. I think that due to the volume of transitant people who live here, not much effort is put in to make it nicer. It’s a shame because there are some really nice buildings and neighborhoods that would be lovely if there was some care put into them. Unfortunately, it’s all dirty and run down. Almost every night, you will hear fir
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°✈️39min$3,965 / mo30Mbps×Lived in Copenhagen for just under three years, and for the whole time, I have worked remotely as a freelancer. It's pretty much as perfect as you're going to get in terms of urban design; getting around is easy and safe by bike, and the public transport network is efficient and reasonably-priced. Lots of fun things to do for a relatively small city, and the locals are—from personal experience—incredibly friendly. Pros: - Very safe. You can walk around most areas round-the-clock and not h
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 51😷✈️54min$5,110 / mo99Mbps×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 38🚕2h$6,231 / mo🌇 Also went here129 people×Super expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 10° 51°AQI 24✈️10min$3,757 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 65😷✈️26min$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here104 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 29✈️30min$5,022 / mo🌇 Also went here108 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️49min$3,741 / mo🌇 Also went here101 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 65😷✈️58min$4,352 / mo🌇 Also went here79 people×Budapest was on my list about cities for living. I stayed for 7 days and was a little disappointed People are not very friendly, lots os places very dirty, people smoke a lot and the costs isn't affordable as people indicated here. Its a beautiful place, walkable, people have a good level of education, lots of things to do, but not as i imagined. Even so its a nice place.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 34✈️2h$2,411 / mo🌇 Also went here61 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 32✈️2h$5,078 / mo🌇 Also went here100 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°✈️2h$5,535 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 26✈️2h$3,567 / mo🌇 Also went here68 people×It used to be a nice city for nomads, but its out-priced now and don't recommend it. I am a single female- remote worker from USA with residence permit of 2 years and have to say its not what it used to be. Stormy tropical weather as we speak so unpredictable these days. Landlords charging ridiculous prices and amenities just don't match quality that should be given. Looking into Spain as we speak..
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 31✈️2h$2,860 / mo🌇 Also went here63 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 36✈️2h$3,490 / mo🌇 Also went here86 people×I’m working remotely and since it’s war in Ukraine I was living in Istanbul for half of year, after moving to Dubai i realised it’s not much more expensive here in Dubai. And besides that no one is cheating me like it was happening non stop in Istanbul
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 66😷✈️3h$1,856 / mo🌇 Also went here64 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 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°✈️8h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×A dystopian cyberpunk metropolis, a veritable Night City, both chaotic and well run, livable yet poisonous. Follow the classic advice: stay near the BTS, skyscraper condo, work from mall libraries, cafes, and commons, don’t be outside. Outsource your chores. On a western salary or with savings, you’ll be playing life on easy mode. Focus your energy on meeting people, honing your body, and learning new skills. There’s a reason it’s number 1. You can disagree, but try to find it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 39° 102° 34° 94°🥵AQI 71😷✈️12h$1,346 / mo🌇 Also went here82 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
By signing up, you agree to our terms of service and community guidelines.
One-time-payment: $39.98 $19.99 💫2024 NEW YEAR 0% off
Billed once. Then never again
One-time-payment: $218 $109 💫2024 NEW YEAR 50% off
Billed once. Then never again
Nomad List members
work remotely at
💖 Thanks for signing up! I hope you like my site. I put a lot of effort into making it.
📬 First, please go to your email and click the confirm link first to verify your email address, check your spam folder if you can't find it
💌 After you confirm your email we'll send you an email with more info
👩💻 You can start using Nomad List's member-only features now!