⭐️ Total score | 3.83/5 (Rank #85) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍86% liked it 👎14% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,015 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 15°C58°F (feels 15°C59°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 58% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy : 153 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 86 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Bad |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $60 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Nepal |
⏱ Average trip length | 11 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 15°C 58°F + 😊 Comfy (58%) = feels 15°C 59°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 153 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 86 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 1,000 NPR in USD | USD 7.49 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NPR 10,000 = USD 75 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍16% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $722 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Hamrobazaar |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jet Airways |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Etihad Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | CIWEC |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,015 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $524 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,111 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $317 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $565 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $707 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $147 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $26 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $23 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $184 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,017 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Nomad List members liked going here
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Cold now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6116° cool | 489° cold | 7323° mild | 5513° cool | 7222° mild | 5412° cool | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 5513° cool | 7323° mild | 5010° cold | 6317° cool |
Real | 6116° cool | 489° cold | 7323° mild | 5513° cool | 7222° mild | 5412° cool | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 5513° cool | 7323° mild | 5010° cold | 6317° cool |
Humidity | too dry 28% | too dry 28% | too dry 20% | too dry 17% | nice 38% | nice 46% | nice 48% | nice 49% | nice 47% | nice 43% | nice 35% | too dry 30% |
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Rain | dry 2mm | dry 10mm | dry 14mm | dry 28mm | rainy 144mm | rainy 243mm | rainy 275mm | rainy 343mm | rainy 211mm | rainy 83mm | dry 9mm | dry 15mm |
Cloud | pockets 15% | pockets 13% | pockets 13% | pockets 12% | pockets 39% | pockets 43% | pockets 46% | pockets 47% | pockets 39% | pockets 24% | pockets 19% | pockets 17% |
Air quality | bad 155 US AQI | bad 145 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 9 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI | bad 158 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 267 people | 400 people | 500 people | 617 people | 450 people | 333 people | 311 people | 333 people | 455 people | 925 people | 450 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 155😷✈️28min$1,107 / mo13Mbps×I stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 29° 84°AQI 73😷✈️4h$1,346 / mo80Mbps×Lived here for over a year, but I only recommend short visits. Contrary to what you hear, there is plenty of crime in parts of Dubai. Talking about that crime is considered taboo and, in many cases, is illegal. Sexual assault and gang violence against expats took place just outside my building, to people who lived in my building. I went to the police station a few times, but the issue was never handled and no arrests were ever made. I have videos of (unspecified) crimes taking place here, but
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 33° 91° 29° 83°AQI 131😷✈️7h$1,957 / mo56Mbps×Don´t go. Pollution, traffic ,not safe... no fun.. bad experience.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 204😷✈️54min$1,079 / mo10Mbps×I absolutely love Istanbul! My biggest recommendation would be to stay in Cihangir or Nişantaşı and avoid the main centre. Cihangir has so many beautiful cafes to work from and there are a lot of people working remotely so it's a really nice vibe. I agree with the comments about taxis, we just caught ubers but mostly walked everywhere which I would recommend. If you stay in Cihangir you can easily walk to Taxim square and through Galata. The food scene here is great once you know where to go
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 6✈️7h$1,572 / mo30Mbps×One of India’s top cities for tech workers
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 26° 79° 26° 78°AQI 59😷✈️2h$1,154 / mo14Mbps×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 19✈️7h$2,874 / mo70Mbps×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 1✈️9h$4,778 / mo23Mbps×I stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 126😷✈️11min$699 / mo🌇 Also went here88 people×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 57😷✈️2h$1,030 / mo🌇 Also went here98 people×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 30° 86°🥵AQI 131😷✈️7h$1,958 / mo🌇 Also went here81 people×I absolutely love Istanbul! My biggest recommendation would be to stay in Cihangir or Nişantaşı and avoid the main centre. Cihangir has so many beautiful cafes to work from and there are a lot of people working remotely so it's a really nice vibe. I agree with the comments about taxis, we just caught ubers but mostly walked everywhere which I would recommend. If you stay in Cihangir you can easily walk to Taxim square and through Galata. The food scene here is great once you know where to go
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 6✈️7h$1,572 / mo🌇 Also went here96 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 9° 49°AQI 43✈️9h$5,051 / mo🌇 Also went here71 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 36✈️10h$4,681 / mo🌇 Also went here88 people×I find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°AQI 34✈️10h$5,467 / mo🌇 Also went here102 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 30✈️10h$3,533 / mo🌇 Also went here75 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 85😷✈️16h$7,583 / mo🌇 Also went here80 people×