⭐️ Total score | 4.07/5 (Rank #12) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Good |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,999 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 81Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C80°F (feels 32°C90°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 86% |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 71 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,662 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Great |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Good |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Hong Kong |
🗓️ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 81 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 71 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Tsing Yi South |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Sam Shing |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 HKD in USD | USD 1.28 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | HKD 1,000 = USD 128 |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | CoCoon |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | The Hive |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | McCafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 25,695,800 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 492,459 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 7,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $43,943 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Square Foot |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Hong Kong Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Hong Kong Central Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,999 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,522 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $8,109 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $2,317 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,848 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,311 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,080 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $87 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $43 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $238 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
👩🏫 International school | $19,968 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $9 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $4,321 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $12,821 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $37,500 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Expensive
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 6317° cool |
Real | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8329° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 6317° cool |
Humidity | nice 33% | nice 40% | nice 44% | nice 44% | nice 44% | nice 47% | nice 45% | nice 46% | nice 43% | nice 41% | nice 35% | nice 39% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 2mm | rainy 59mm | dry 10mm | dry 41mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 338mm | rainy 241mm | rainy 291mm | rainy 98mm | dry 40mm | dry 2mm | dry 40mm |
Cloud | pockets 29% | pockets 26% | pockets 36% | pockets 44% | pockets 48% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 58% | pockets 35% | pockets 46% | pockets 32% | pockets 37% |
Air quality | okay 86 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 89 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 1,889 people | 1,100 people | 1,770 people | 1,922 people | 1,444 people | 1,267 people | 1,147 people | 1,029 people | 1,347 people | 1,524 people | 1,747 people | 1,454 people |
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Pretty much near impossible to get by if English is your only language. Couldn't get a Chinese SIM. Experienced Racism in bars / clubs as the only Westerners in there. Bar staff disinterested to serve us and looking down on us. Beautiful skyline very impressive modern architecture but generally a nightmare getting around if you don't speak any Chinese. Wouldn't go again
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°🥵AQI 87😷✈️11min$1,558 / mo4Mbps×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 44° 111° 36° 96°🥵AQI 94😷✈️2h$1,345 / mo86Mbps×I love Taipei, extremely underrated place—not sure why, though I'm fine with that. The cleanliness, amenities, and kindness of the people will remind you of Tokyo.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°AQI 91😷✈️1h$2,161 / mo67Mbps×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 34✈️4h$2,762 / mo64Mbps×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 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 39° 102°🥵AQI 157😷✈️2h$950 / mo63Mbps×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵✈️3h$4,305 / mo50Mbps×Definitely worth visiting but not particularly attractive as a remote work destination. I can't think of anything Seoul does better than other Asian cities outside of just being cool because it's South Korean (and I don't mean that sarcastically at all, South Korea is a very cool place). But again, do visit.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 55😷✈️3h$2,592 / mo90Mbps×Saigon has things going for it—great food, beautiful French architecture, interesting history, steady development, and nice enough people. But overall, the vibes are mediocre. Again, the locals are nice enough, though, as a Westerner, you're not going to feel as welcomed as you are in surrounding countries (I don't mean to sound entitled, that's an honest assessment). You just sort of exist; people stare at you and will be amused by you, but don't expect the celebrity treatment you get in othe
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 42° 108° 35° 95°🥵✈️2h$1,038 / mo45Mbps×Shanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 70😷✈️2h$1,845 / mo4Mbps×Pretty much near impossible to get by if English is your only language. Couldn't get a Chinese SIM. Experienced Racism in bars / clubs as the only Westerners in there. Bar staff disinterested to serve us and looking down on us. Beautiful skyline very impressive modern architecture but generally a nightmare getting around if you don't speak any Chinese. Wouldn't go again
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°🥵AQI 87😷✈️11min$1,558 / mo4Mbps×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️13h$5,484 / mo30Mbps×Saigon has things going for it—great food, beautiful French architecture, interesting history, steady development, and nice enough people. But overall, the vibes are mediocre. Again, the locals are nice enough, though, as a Westerner, you're not going to feel as welcomed as you are in surrounding countries (I don't mean to sound entitled, that's an honest assessment). You just sort of exist; people stare at you and will be amused by you, but don't expect the celebrity treatment you get in othe
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 42° 108° 35° 95°🥵✈️2h$1,038 / mo🌇 Also went here340 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 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 39° 102°🥵AQI 157😷✈️2h$950 / mo🌇 Also went here418 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 44° 111° 36° 96°🥵AQI 94😷✈️2h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here662 people×Definitely worth visiting but not particularly attractive as a remote work destination. I can't think of anything Seoul does better than other Asian cities outside of just being cool because it's South Korean (and I don't mean that sarcastically at all, South Korea is a very cool place). But again, do visit.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 55😷✈️3h$2,592 / mo🌇 Also went here328 people×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 76😷✈️3h$1,220 / mo🌇 Also went here418 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵✈️3h$4,305 / mo🌇 Also went here522 people×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 34✈️4h$2,762 / mo🌇 Also went here442 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 42°AQI 57😷✈️12h$3,923 / mo🌇 Also went here367 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 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 34✈️12h$6,068 / mo🌇 Also went here389 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️13h$5,484 / mo🌇 Also went here481 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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 38✈️13h$5,034 / mo🌇 Also went here426 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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 38✈️13h$5,021 / mo🌇 Also went here399 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 43✈️15h$3,878 / mo🌇 Also went here360 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°✈️15h$5,912 / mo🌇 Also went here314 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°✈️17h$7,298 / mo🌇 Also went here433 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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