⭐️ Total score | 2.31/5 (Rank #618) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $965 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 22°C72°F (feels 22°C72°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 58% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 38 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 106 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $176 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (1 per 16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Uzbekistan |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 22°C 72°F + 😊 Comfy (58%) = feels 22°C 72°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 38 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 106 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Yandex Taxi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 100,000 UZS in USD | USD 7.94 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UZS 1,000,000 = USD 79 |
💻 Best coworking space | T4K |
☕️ Best coffee place | Mangit Art |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,116 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 89% 👱♀️ 11% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Golden Pages |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Uzbeikistan Airways |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Uzbekistan Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | Tashkent International Clinic |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $965 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $499 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $181 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $52 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,032 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,705 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $487 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $48 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $56 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $82 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $0.00 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 415° cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 7021° mild | 7926° warm | 8429° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 7725° warm | 6116° cool | 5211° cool | 468° cold |
Real | 415° very cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 6820° mild | 8228° very warm | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 8228° very warm | 6116° cool | 5111° cool | 468° cold |
Humidity | nice 34% | nice 31% | nice 34% | too dry 21% | too dry 19% | too dry 12% | too dry 13% | too dry 12% | too dry 12% | too dry 21% | too dry 26% | nice 32% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 20mm | dry 43mm | rainy 99mm | dry 40mm | dry 8mm | dry 3mm | dry 3mm | dry 2mm | dry 0mm | dry 32mm | dry 26mm | dry 41mm |
Cloud | pockets 32% | pockets 38% | pockets 48% | pockets 23% | pockets 28% | pockets 14% | pockets 18% | pockets 13% | clear 4% | pockets 33% | pockets 30% | pockets 39% |
Air quality | okay 80 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | bad 106* US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 117 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 350 people | 200 people | 571 people | 300 people | 267 people | 333 people | 286 people | 325 people | 680 people | 750 people | 350 people | 200 people |
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