⭐️ Total score | 3.25/5 (Rank #366) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,384 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 24Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 28°C82°F (feels 30°C86°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 65% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 43 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 29 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | High: $3,538 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Germany |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 28°C 82°F + 😊 Comfy (65%) = feels 30°C 86°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 43 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 29.25 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | simyo |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 105 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 310,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $42,456 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | wg-gesucht |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ryanair |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Lufthansa |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,384 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,482 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,309 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $946 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $633 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $211 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,647 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $77 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 41 listings) | $1,925 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $63 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $11,133 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,508 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $100,974 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 341° cold | 468° cold | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 457° cold | 415° cold |
Real | 373° very cold | 489° cold | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7625° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 436° very cold |
Humidity | damp 80% | damp 77% | nice 70% | nice 64% | damp 75% | nice 78% | nice 82% | nice 80% | nice 76% | damp 79% | damp 81% | damp 84% |
Rain | rainy 111mm | dry 48mm | rainy 73mm | dry 47mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 136mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 74mm | dry 25mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 91mm |
Cloud | overcast 96% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 89% |
Air quality | clean 48 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 50 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 800 people | 320 people | 267 people | 200 people | 300 people | 550 people | 267 people | 250 people | 200 people | 200 people | 367 people |
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Very nice to visit, the architecture, nature... I think that person who wants calm stable life and can make friends and has family can live quite decent life gere. The shops... amazing... The Neckar river and bridges... amazing... I have visited Heidelberg I think three times and I will come back to visit it again... It brings smile on my face.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 41✈️15min$5,565 / mo28Mbps×I wanted to comment on the low 'walkability' score because this is completely inaccurate - I lived in Erlangen for 4-1/2 years and never owned a car. I walked a lot around town, and it was perfectly safe. There are even some pedestrian zones with no traffic. Erlangen should have a really high score in this category- it's not exactly a big town where getting around on foot just isn't reasonable. You can alternatively ride a bike pretty much anywhere. Getting in and around town is also possible wi
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 18✈️16min$2,936 / mo24Mbps×I've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 35✈️20min$4,087 / mo24Mbps×Berlin 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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 62°AQI 34✈️53min$4,887 / mo15Mbps×I've been there in summer. I don't understand why the rate of walkability is bad, that is ridiculous. People are friendly and polite, if you want to find a job is easy, although opening a bank account to get your salary can take two months. There are plenty of coffees, restaurants and bars, often you need to book in advance (more if the weather is good), and they will rip you off. I knew this, and I went there with the plan of no-eating out, no coffee-out and no-party, but even the supermarket i
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 20✈️2h$1,103 / mo7Mbps×I've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 35✈️20min$4,087 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×Super expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 50✈️1h$3,831 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×I've been to ~70 countries. Porto is my favorite city in the world. The people, the people, the people! It's the perfect size, well connected airport, vibrant and happening, amazing blend of locals and expats, and much cheaper than Lisbon. Looking to call this place home.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️2h$2,158 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×A great place to be. Excellent price/quality ratio. You can easily find everything needed to work: coworking, sim (you can eg use Airalo). There is a plenty of things to do in the city and around it. Food is dirt cheap and delicious. It can be trashy and sometimes touristy but that didn't cause problems for me.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 20✈️2h$1,103 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 57✈️16h$1,300 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×The places to rent are not very good. Poor design and low quality furniture. You won't find one that comes with a good desk and chair. Most of them don't have a good place to put one even if you bring your own. Hard water is common and unpleasant. Can't walk around due to small roads, traffic, sometimes unfriendly stray dogs. It does have good restaurants, lots of variety from many international cuisines. Not that great for Indonesian food though. Probably better for a short visit rather than
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