⭐️ Total score | 3.1/5 (Rank #670) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,498 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 21°C70°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 19% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 59 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 68 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 21°C 70°F + 🌵 Too dry (19%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 59 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 68.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.49 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 149 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,900,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,498 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $974 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,526 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $722 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $289 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $75 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $703 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $33 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 1 listings) | $1,390 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $46 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $6 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 12-11° freezing | 27-3° freezing | 415° cold | 457° cold | 6317° cool | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 457° cold | 28-2° freezing | 21-6° freezing |
Real | 16-9° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 436° very cold | 468° cold | 6317° cool | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 457° cold | 30-1° freezing | 21-6° freezing |
Humidity | nice 40% | nice 37% | nice 41% | nice 40% | too dry 28% | nice 33% | nice 63% | nice 60% | nice 57% | nice 40% | nice 50% | nice 39% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 6mm | dry 21mm | dry 44mm | dry 29mm | dry 40mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 59mm | dry 46mm | dry 14mm | dry 12mm | dry 3mm |
Cloud | pockets 17% | pockets 25% | pockets 40% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 55% | pockets 38% | pockets 12% | clear 8% |
Air quality | bad 120 US AQI | bad 100 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 98 US AQI | bad 111 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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