⭐️ Total score | 3.33/5 (Rank #72) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,983 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 18°C65°F (feels 18°C64°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 37% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 114 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 65 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Okay |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $425 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 3k ppl/km² (17x17m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | South Africa |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 18°C 65°F + 😊 Comfy (36.7%) = feels 18°C 64°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 114 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 65 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 ZAR in USD | USD 5.19 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | ZAR 10,000 = USD 519 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 5,537,600 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 106,128 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 4,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,105 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 17x17m (289m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Takealot |
🏠 Apartment listings | GumTree |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Kulula |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,983 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $964 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,783 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $509 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $964 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,113 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $315 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $45 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $36 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $401 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $4,515 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $12 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $3 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6619° mild | 5915° cool | 5714° cool | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7926° warm | 7323° mild |
Real | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5915° cool | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7826° warm | 7323° mild |
Humidity | nice 74% | nice 73% | nice 54% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 43% | nice 33% | nice 38% | nice 35% | nice 45% | nice 51% | nice 68% |
Rain | rainy 132mm | rainy 145mm | dry 34mm | dry 23mm | dry 7mm | dry 6mm | dry 0mm | dry 3mm | dry 8mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 130mm |
Cloud | cloudy 74% | cloudy 65% | pockets 34% | pockets 21% | pockets 24% | pockets 11% | clear 0% | clear 9% | pockets 17% | pockets 39% | pockets 45% | cloudy 70% |
Air quality | clean 18 US AQI | bad 166 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | bad 166 US AQI | bad 166 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 383 people | 444 people | 514 people | 511 people | 450 people | 267 people | 425 people | 289 people | 250 people | 600 people | 571 people | 357 people |
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I really enjoyed Gaborone - clean, safe, plenty of shopping areas, great roads, plenty of restaurants. We stayed in a beautiful 3-bedroom, 2 bath house in the Phakalane neighborhood. I felt safe and secure. The weather in early February was beautiful, although it did rain some. If you're looking for excitement and a lot of activities, Botswana may not be for you but I loved it. I thought the quality of life in Gaborone was perfect.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️22min$2,152 / mo1Mbps×Lot's of great little eating places hidden around. the food style is much different than Johannesburg.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 2✈️40min$1,805 / mo6Mbps×Lusaka is a bustling city full of surprises if you look. The downside is rent is on the pricey side than say what you would expect to pay in most places in SEA. You can find some low rental places but then you'd be putting yourself in an environment that's not particularly safe. I'd pick a neighbourhood like Kabulonga, Woodlands, Chilenje, Ibex Hill or Makeni. Getting around is easier if you have a car or find a reliable cabby. You can also use the local rideshare app called Ulendo Taxi, it work
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 26° 79° 27° 80°AQI 108😷✈️2h$1,428 / mo2Mbps×Amazing place. Stayed here for 4.5 months (starting with November) and it was a blast. Everything is great. Just live in a good area and don't walk after sunset, then you'll be fine. Work from a coworking space in order to avoid load shedding. I am certain that this city will be more popular in the following years.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 116😷✈️2h$2,039 / mo6Mbps×Amazing place. Stayed here for 4.5 months (starting with November) and it was a blast. Everything is great. Just live in a good area and don't walk after sunset, then you'll be fine. Work from a coworking space in order to avoid load shedding. I am certain that this city will be more popular in the following years.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 116😷✈️2h$2,039 / mo6Mbps×People either hate this place or love it. I am more on the hating side. Feels fake af, overpriced. The city is either a business downtown, either an outdated fancy chick area, either a slump. And don't get me started on human rights here. I'd visit it for a week or two just as a tourist, but definitely not live here for longer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 39° 102° 34° 94°🥵AQI 114😷✈️9h$3,336 / mo6Mbps×Lot's of great little eating places hidden around. the food style is much different than Johannesburg.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 2✈️40min$1,805 / mo6Mbps×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 30✈️12h$6,451 / mo16Mbps×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 29✈️12h$6,074 / mo14Mbps×This city is incredible. Now I understand why Parisians look down on other cities. It is endless. Museums, history, cool bars, incredible food, diversity, beautiful people nicely dressed... It helps a lot to speak French. It's expensive. I'd love to nomad here for a month or two. I really liked Marais as an area.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 49✈️12h$5,112 / mo19Mbps×Gorgeous city with kind people. But since March 2022 prices have increased substantially. Now Tbilisi is more expensive than many European cities. Georgia is a very family oriented and traditional society.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 44✈️10h$2,341 / mo10Mbps×One of my favourite places to visit. Best vegetarian food in the world.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 23✈️9h$5,441 / mo13Mbps×Mauritius is indeed a great place to live in as a Digital Nomad ! They have recently released the Premium Visa for digital nomads that allows to live on the island for at least 1 year (renewable). Best places to live in are the North (very well developed with all facilities and business centres) and the West of the island (more for those who prefer to surf the waves and hike the mountains in between 2 video calls !). The Mauritians are very welcoming and smiling people. I am not the first one
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 5✈️4h$1,996 / mo3Mbps×I really enjoyed Gaborone - clean, safe, plenty of shopping areas, great roads, plenty of restaurants. We stayed in a beautiful 3-bedroom, 2 bath house in the Phakalane neighborhood. I felt safe and secure. The weather in early February was beautiful, although it did rain some. If you're looking for excitement and a lot of activities, Botswana may not be for you but I loved it. I thought the quality of life in Gaborone was perfect.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️22min$2,152 / mo1Mbps×Spent 2 months in Kigali and criss-crossed the country from there as my base. Pros: friendly people in the city (not so much in the far North rural areas of Rwanda if you travel on your own near Virunga). Clean air. A few good restaurants. Safe in the city (Kigali), even at night. Amazing wildlife and scenery/landscapes if you get a place with a good view and some nature around. Government entities have their sh*t straight more than many other nations. Average internet. Stable power grid. Cons:
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 110😷✈️4h$163,245,288 / mo2Mbps×Sitting here laughing out loud at these "been here a few week" reviews where supposedly they could tell it all. You guys obviously don't know the right places, you probably ended up around lower Sukhumvit (with all the mention about hookers and lbs). Don't listen to any of this. I've lived around SEA for 10+ years. Nearly 8 of them in Bangkok. There is a reason I keep coming back. You have: excellent networking, lots of startups, awesome nightlife (if you know where to go!), amazing, internation
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 33° 91°🥵AQI 95😷✈️12h$1,433 / mo27Mbps×Amazing place. Stayed here for 4.5 months (starting with November) and it was a blast. Everything is great. Just live in a good area and don't walk after sunset, then you'll be fine. Work from a coworking space in order to avoid load shedding. I am certain that this city will be more popular in the following years.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 116😷✈️2h$2,039 / mo🌇 Also went here136 people×People either hate this place or love it. I am more on the hating side. Feels fake af, overpriced. The city is either a business downtown, either an outdated fancy chick area, either a slump. And don't get me started on human rights here. I'd visit it for a week or two just as a tourist, but definitely not live here for longer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 39° 102° 34° 94°🥵AQI 114😷✈️9h$3,336 / mo🌇 Also went here93 people×One of the best cities in Europe. Though location makes a big difference in Istanbul. Besikatas, Nişantaşı, and Karakoy are parts that I enjoyed. They are safe and have nice vibe and energy. Big city, but not too hectic. I've met a lot of friendly Turkish people there and had good conversations. The food is good and relatively cheap. Outside of the good areas you will find lots of scams, people will try you everyday. Though its not violent, you can always just walk away.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 22✈️10h$2,001 / mo🌇 Also went here75 people×There's no reason to live in this city. I spent a year here. The weather is not even a bit nicer compared to central-eastern Europe. Maybe when it's -4 degrees in Budapest, it's +1 in Barcelona. That's just as cold. And the insulation in apartments is practically non-existent, as well as AC and heating. If there's heating in an apartment, using it for like 3 hours/day would cost $100 a month. Speaking of apartments, pricing is ridiculous. $1500 + utilities for a 2 bedroom in a neighborhood where
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 24✈️11h$4,729 / mo🌇 Also went here75 people×My opinion to this person is: - Please go home and be happy and cheerful! Don’t live at “miserable and depressed (…) population” home. - If you’re only use to eat potatoes + burgers, us, as the rest of the world, we have that too. - Please post your photo, so Portuguese women know from whom they must running from. “Pros: - Plenty of great co-working spaces - Lots of digital nomads - Meetups, tech and crypto conferences Cons: - Everything is severely overpriced from food to rents (
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 30✈️11h$3,939 / mo🌇 Also went here58 people×I stayed for some days in Munich and I really enjoy. The city is beautiful and you can find a lot of stuff to do and a lot of great restaurants. The city is also very safe compared the other german cities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 56✈️11h$5,535 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×Just arrived in KL, we are 30/35yrs+, a married couple and digital nomads, and wow.. What a city! This is the New York City of Asia. These appartments are epic. Grand views, very affordable, luxurious! You would pay 10-fold for the same deal in NYC or Tokyo or Dubai. And the food is fantastic. Indian, Malay, Indo, Chinese, American, European. The world is here!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 57✈️11h$1,352 / mo🌇 Also went here54 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 25✈️12h$5,490 / mo🌇 Also went here66 people×This city is incredible. Now I understand why Parisians look down on other cities. It is endless. Museums, history, cool bars, incredible food, diversity, beautiful people nicely dressed... It helps a lot to speak French. It's expensive. I'd love to nomad here for a month or two. I really liked Marais as an area.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 49✈️12h$5,112 / mo🌇 Also went here98 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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 37✈️12h$4,217 / mo🌇 Also went here73 people×Sitting here laughing out loud at these "been here a few week" reviews where supposedly they could tell it all. You guys obviously don't know the right places, you probably ended up around lower Sukhumvit (with all the mention about hookers and lbs). Don't listen to any of this. I've lived around SEA for 10+ years. Nearly 8 of them in Bangkok. There is a reason I keep coming back. You have: excellent networking, lots of startups, awesome nightlife (if you know where to go!), amazing, internation
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 33° 91°🥵AQI 95😷✈️12h$1,433 / mo🌇 Also went here83 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 29✈️12h$6,074 / mo🌇 Also went here103 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 30✈️12h$6,451 / mo🌇 Also went here117 people×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 30✈️17h$6,860 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×I am here right now from the US for almost 6 months. The "international" upscale part of the city, ie Roma, Condesa, Polanco, is absolutely gorgeous, but it is rising in price FAST - a private room in a coworking hostel has gone from $1000 to $1500 in the past year in Roma Norte... When you venture outside of these bubble neighborhoods, you quickly realize that it is still a developing country, so you need to be okay with that. Fun, nice people from all over the world, and Mexicans are SUPER w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 114😷✈️19h$1,911 / mo🌇 Also went here54 people×