⭐️ Total score | 2.91/5 (Rank #416) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,789 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 54Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 34°C94°F (feels 43°C109°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 64% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 25 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 30 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 54 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 34°C 94°F + 😊 Comfy (64%) = feels 43°C 109°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 25 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 30 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | T-Mobile |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Organic Man Coffee Trike |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 260,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
🏥 Best hospital | Doctors Hospital of Laredo |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,789 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,734 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,137 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,182 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $926 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $220 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,163 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $101 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 26 listings) | $1,869 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $61 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 8429° warm | 9334° hot | 10641° scorching | 12451° scorching | 11546° scorching | 11848° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10038° hot | 7725° warm | 8630° warm |
Real | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 8127° warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9435° hot | 8831° hot | 7725° warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | nice 66% | nice 69% | nice 61% | nice 64% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 71% | nice 66% | nice 60% | sweaty 71% | nice 71% | sweaty 77% |
Rain | dry 21mm | dry 4mm | dry 7mm | dry 19mm | rainy 90mm | dry 43mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 68mm | dry 22mm | dry 26mm | dry 14mm | dry 1mm |
Cloud | pockets 26% | pockets 43% | pockets 36% | cloudy 50% | pockets 47% | pockets 27% | pockets 41% | pockets 18% | pockets 18% | pockets 36% | pockets 34% | pockets 39% |
Air quality | clean 23 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 41° 106° 34° 94°🥵AQI 27✈️35min$3,183 / mo59Mbps×Where cowboys and the wild west truly started, San Antonio is a beautiful and historic city with many layers to explore within and outside the city. It's a hotter town than Austin, not just in temperature, but also in terms of friendliness, activities, family values, and cultural richness (with authentic tacos of all types, Tex-Mex, Cali style, and from Mexico City), it has one of the best culinary and cocktail scenes in the country. It's one of the most affordable for millennials in the States
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