⭐️ Total score | 2.27/5 (Rank #718) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,863 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 19°C66°F (feels 20°C68°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 78% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 102 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 80 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (1 per 15x15m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 16 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Suzhou is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 19°C 66°F + 😊 Comfy (78%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 102 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 81 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Kalerm Company |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Dio Coffee |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Pingjiangfu Suzhou |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 73% 👱♀️ 27% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | FullHome |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
🏥 Best hospital | Singhealth Medical Clinic |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,863 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,335 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,225 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $921 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $601 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,671 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $560 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $55 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $157 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
👩🏫 International school | $33,815 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 436° cold | 5412° cool | 5412° cool | 6418° cool | 7524° warm | 8228° warm | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 8228° warm | 7021° mild | 6116° cool | 5211° cool |
Real | 457° cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 6418° cool | 7524° warm | 8329° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 6820° mild | 6116° cool | 5312° cool |
Humidity | nice 34% | nice 37% | nice 39% | nice 33% | nice 36% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 41% | nice 39% | nice 36% | nice 32% | too dry 30% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 9mm | dry 49mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 147mm | rainy 150mm | rainy 175mm | rainy 167mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 71mm | dry 45mm | dry 3mm |
Cloud | pockets 34% | pockets 41% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 59% | pockets 50% | pockets 45% | pockets 39% | pockets 35% | pockets 20% |
Air quality | bad 130 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 123 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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