⭐️ Total score | 2.99/5 (Rank #893) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,100 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C74°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 99% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 76 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 132 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 | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⏱ Average trip length | 152 days |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (99%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 76 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 132.5 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
💸 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 | 3,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 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 | $1,100 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $765 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,125 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $607 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $327 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $74 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $464 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $22 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 1 listings) | $792 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $26 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ 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
❌ 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 | 362° cold | 489° cold | 5915° cool | 6820° mild | 8127° warm | 10239° hot | 10641° scorching | 9535° hot | 8228° warm | 6418° cool | 5412° cool | 436° cold |
Real | 394° very cold | 5010° cold | 5915° cool | 6720° mild | 7926° warm | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 7826° warm | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 457° cold |
Humidity | nice 40% | nice 38% | nice 54% | nice 45% | nice 52% | nice 60% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 85% | nice 82% | nice 68% | nice 62% | nice 44% |
Rain | dry 3mm | dry 35mm | dry 16mm | dry 31mm | dry 26mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 182mm | rainy 130mm | rainy 204mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 72mm | dry 2mm |
Cloud | pockets 26% | pockets 19% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 70% | pockets 47% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 54% | pockets 23% | pockets 12% |
Air quality | bad 182 US AQI | bad 167 US AQI | bad 150 US AQI | bad 152 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 134 US AQI | bad 122 US AQI | bad 120 US AQI | bad 131 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 156 US AQI | bad 168 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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