⭐️ Total score | 2.83/5 (Rank #1045) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,420 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 35°C95°F (feels 49°C120°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 69% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 42 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 81 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 | Great |
✌️ 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 |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Huzhou is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 35°C 95°F + 😊 Comfy (69%) = feels 49°C 120°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 81 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 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 | 1,100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ 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 | $2,420 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,237 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,720 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $777 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $478 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $75 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,926 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $137 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 24 listings) | $2,099 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $69 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ 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 cold in the winter
❌ 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 | 468° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 9736° hot | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 9736° hot | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5513° cool |
Real | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 7021° mild | 6317° cool | 5513° cool |
Humidity | nice 63% | damp 79% | damp 86% | nice 76% | nice 81% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 86% | nice 79% | damp 72% | nice 63% |
Rain | dry 21mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 102mm | dry 48mm | rainy 146mm | rainy 168mm | rainy 423mm | rainy 218mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 117mm | dry 42mm | dry 11mm |
Cloud | cloudy 57% | cloudy 66% | overcast 91% | cloudy 87% | overcast 90% | overcast 91% | overcast 94% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 59% | pockets 27% |
Air quality | bad 126 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI | bad 110 US AQI | bad 100 US AQI | okay 88 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 74 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 99 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
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