⭐️ Total score | 2.56/5 (Rank #1001) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,663 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C81°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 59% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $43 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 😤 Dense: 20k ppl/km² (7x7m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | DR Congo |
⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 27°C 81°F + 😊 Comfy (59%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Orange |
💸 10,000 CDF in USD | USD 5.00 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CDF 1,000,000 = USD 500 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Muzik Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 11,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $512 / year |
😤 Population density | 😤 crowded: 7x7m (49m²) per person |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Cores |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | CAA |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Centre Medical de Kinshasa |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,663 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $207 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $446 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $128 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $69 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $33 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,956 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $92 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° warm |
Real | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 8027° warm | 7926° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 83% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 77% | nice 69% | nice 61% | nice 63% | nice 66% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 90% | nice 90% |
Rain | rainy 196mm | rainy 216mm | rainy 237mm | rainy 226mm | rainy 117mm | dry 18mm | dry 1mm | dry 18mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 176mm | rainy 294mm | rainy 276mm |
Cloud | cloudy 87% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 88% | overcast 94% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 56% | pockets 39% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 89% | overcast 93% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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