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| ⭐️ Total score | 39 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Africa |
| 🚩 Country | Uganda |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 17 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (89%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 54 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 139 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10,000 UGX in USD | USD 2.60 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UGX 1,000,000 = USD 260 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Prunes Cafe |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Metropole |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $610 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 73% 👱♀️ 27% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Air BnB |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Uganda |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Alliance Air |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Case Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,429 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $963 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,289 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $654 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $903 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,137 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $580 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $42 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $236 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Real | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7826° warm | 7725° warm |
| Humidity | nice 82% | sweaty 77% | nice 78% | nice 88% | nice 89% | nice 78% | nice 71% | nice 75% | nice 82% | nice 83% | nice 78% | nice 82% |
| Rain | rainy 209mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 277mm | rainy 173mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 170mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 164mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 76% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 87% |
| Air quality | bad 149 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 119 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 144 US AQI | bad 143 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 124 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
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I've spent a total of ~2 months in Kigali. Pros: very safe, pretty affordable, very pretty, hospitable people, great coffee. Cons: a bit dull, culture is very insular (respectful but quite conservative), food is bad, police state vibes are kind of weird. A certain kind of person who doesn't care about nightlife at all, is open to experiencing a foreign culture that's more inward-oriented, and wants to live a really chill lifestyle in a green, pleasant city would really like it. I personally need
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 54✈️30min$2,122 / mo2MbpsLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 54✈️40min$1,692 / mo8Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 88°🥵AQI 54✈️41min$2,925 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 105😷✈️1h$1,779 / moI enjoyed the beaches in Diani, Kilifi, and Watamu. However, Mombasa island is not a very enjoyable place to be and I would recommend only staying there the night before an early departure.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 54✈️1h$1,438 / mo8MbpsGreat city, great weather, many parties, many different beaches, quite safe in the international neighborhoods, not too expensive and decent internet
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 54✈️1h$1,628 / mo1MbpsPros: - I loved the inejra - Weather was nice - The home country for my parents, so it felt nice being able to just blend in, compared to living in western countries. - The USD goes a long way Cons: Coming from a western perspective, life in here in Addis Ababa is just unnecessarily difficult. Day to day things are filled with an absurd amount of inefficiencies that I often wonder how things get done at all. - The pedestrian infrastructure is completely lacking with uneven sidewalks & lack
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 80😷✈️2h$1,670 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°AQI 38✈️2h$1,919 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 38✈️2h$1,806 / moFrom the Ashes rises a new City. Invest in Mogadishu for the future lies in the horn of Africa. God was basically preserving for 30 years.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵✈️2h$2,553 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 29° 83°✈️2h$1,993 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 82°✈️2h$2,077 / mo1MbpsLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 54✈️40min$1,692 / mo8MbpsI've spent a total of ~2 months in Kigali. Pros: very safe, pretty affordable, very pretty, hospitable people, great coffee. Cons: a bit dull, culture is very insular (respectful but quite conservative), food is bad, police state vibes are kind of weird. A certain kind of person who doesn't care about nightlife at all, is open to experiencing a foreign culture that's more inward-oriented, and wants to live a really chill lifestyle in a green, pleasant city would really like it. I personally need
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 54✈️30min$2,122 / mo2MbpsSo/so. Is not a bad place to live. Standard of living is really high, apartments are amazing as well. There is basically any kind of cuisine you can think of. Great (and expensive) nightlife. 0% taxes is great if you are willing to go through the hoops. Cons: Is oppressively hot during summer. You need a car to get around or spend absurd amounts monthly on taxis. It might get really expensive but you can definitely save by buying smart. I would be back as a tourist but not for remote working on
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 45° 113° 33° 91°🥵AQI 163😷✈️5h$3,774 / mo8MbpsI enjoyed the beaches in Diani, Kilifi, and Watamu. However, Mombasa island is not a very enjoyable place to be and I would recommend only staying there the night before an early departure.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 54✈️1h$1,438 / mo8MbpsNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 38✈️11h$4,954 / mo102MbpsLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 28✈️8h$5,738 / mo19MbpsI am a UK born, East Asian female who lived in Joburg (alone) as an expat for a few years... and I really love it. Yes, there are safety concerns so you must take precautions, however, I found the locals to be extremely warm and friendly (the one thing I wasn't expecting when I arrived), the weather is spot on, it's very cheap, good quality new build apartments in places like Sandton, Rosebank, Parkhurt, Bryanston etc and AMAZING quality restaurants e.g you can get an excellent fillet steak and
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 29° 83°AQI 156😷✈️4h$2,655 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 36✈️7h$6,418 / mo33MbpsAll in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 83°AQI 44✈️18h$3,931 / mo44Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 39✈️19h$3,808 / mo101MbpsI'm currently in Marrakesh and been here for a month. I would definitely recommend visiting but not during summer as it can get really hot. My first day here it was 42 degrees and really dry. It has gotten better so I would say visit around August or later. Marrakesh is lovely but very touristy and I can only imagine how things were pre-pandemic. Since it is very touristy, locals are more lenient when it comes to what you choose to wear which helps a lot when it's really hot. Obviously, you stil
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 29° 85°AQI 43✈️7h$2,421 / mo8Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 29✈️9h$4,954 / mo18MbpsI've spent a total of ~2 months in Kigali. Pros: very safe, pretty affordable, very pretty, hospitable people, great coffee. Cons: a bit dull, culture is very insular (respectful but quite conservative), food is bad, police state vibes are kind of weird. A certain kind of person who doesn't care about nightlife at all, is open to experiencing a foreign culture that's more inward-oriented, and wants to live a really chill lifestyle in a green, pleasant city would really like it. I personally need
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 54✈️30min$2,122 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 54✈️40min$1,692 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleSo/so. Is not a bad place to live. Standard of living is really high, apartments are amazing as well. There is basically any kind of cuisine you can think of. Great (and expensive) nightlife. 0% taxes is great if you are willing to go through the hoops. Cons: Is oppressively hot during summer. You need a car to get around or spend absurd amounts monthly on taxis. It might get really expensive but you can definitely save by buying smart. I would be back as a tourist but not for remote working on
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 45° 113° 33° 91°🥵AQI 163😷✈️5h$3,774 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI've spent 4 years in Istanbul, it was one of my best experience. I met amazing people, but also a loooooot (looooot) of scams even from people I considered friends. So be careful of whom you trust there, but instead of that it is a magical city, always something to do, very beautiful, and affordable, and as a women I felt very safe there (learnt turkish but even before that I felt safe)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 37✈️6h$2,109 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 15✈️7h$5,199 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleStayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 22✈️7h$1,992 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleOne of the best cities in Europe. Beautiful, wide streets, perfect weather. Huge tech scene & everything you can imagine. Food is next level. You can take the train and in 20 mins you will be in a nice uncrowded beach. The airport is a massive hub to go anywhere. FC Barcelona, huge huge football atmosphere. Tons of beautiful coworkings. Internet is ultra fast. Prices are expensive, but so is everything right now :(
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 19✈️7h$4,626 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 26✈️8h$3,751 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 28✈️8h$5,738 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 124😷✈️9h$5,113 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85°🥵AQI 50✈️10h$1,883 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 62✈️10h$1,635 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 38✈️11h$4,954 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 58✈️12h$1,971 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 18✈️15h$6,600 / mo🌇 Also went here26 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
