⭐️ Total score | 3.11/5 (Rank #647) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,112 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 8Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 27°C81°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 50% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 65 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 31 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Low: $1,969 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Good |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Cyprus |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (50%) = feels 27°C 81°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 65 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 31.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | SMARTRONIX |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 107 |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Ibsen Tea & Coffee House |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | BlueBerry Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $23,631 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 59% 👱♀️ 41% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Home Greek Home |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jet2 |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Cyprus Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | Ygia Polyclinic Private Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,112 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,814 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,563 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,018 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $561 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $258 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,762 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $83 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 46 listings) | $2,309 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $76 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 8831° hot | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 6418° cool |
Real | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 7222° mild | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 7424° warm | 6317° cool |
Humidity | nice 60% | nice 60% | nice 60% | nice 51% | nice 52% | nice 57% | nice 55% | nice 49% | nice 60% | nice 56% | nice 58% | nice 65% |
Rain | rainy 118mm | dry 21mm | dry 28mm | dry 11mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 2mm | dry 4mm | dry 21mm | rainy 140mm |
Cloud | pockets 49% | pockets 21% | pockets 28% | pockets 28% | pockets 13% | clear 4% | clear 2% | clear 4% | clear 5% | pockets 13% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 50% |
Air quality | clean 27 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 400 people | 350 people | 400 people | 400 people | 533 people | 200 people | 360 people | 267 people | 400 people | 267 people | 300 people | 450 people |
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Quite expensive for such an ugly place. Weather in the winter is not that great...I'd go to Antalya/Kas or even Albanian coast if you need to be outside Schengen Zone in the winter and want something with a mild temp.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 71🚕2h$2,573 / mo10Mbps×Not quite as bad as Paphos, but still quite ugly and empty feeling, and, as with everywhere in Cyprus, way too expensive for what you get.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 62🚕2h$3,372 / mo8Mbps×An interesting place which has a decent Russian-speaking community from post-Soviet republics. Pros: - quite affordable - proximity to the sea/beach (plenty of condos 2-4 mins walking distance) - Fiber Internet (50mbps is easy to get) Cons: - limited food options (Turkish cuisine) - really slow at times (might be a pro for some) - no coworking spaces
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 67✈️18min$874 / mo8Mbps×Beirut is a place where ideas are formed, and where art, culture, cuisine and an ardour for life thrive. Bars, restaurants and clubs come and go more frequently than the snow on the mountain peaks that form a backdrop to the city. But finding the new places - only to later realise they have vanished - is what makes for singular, memorable nights on these warm shores of the Mediterranean. Unlike in many other capitals in the region, there is a liberal attitude towards drinking in Beirut, where yo
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 135😷✈️20min$1,586 / mo2Mbps×Haifa is amazing but DO NOT COME HERE. I Repeat DO NOT COME HERE THIS PLACE SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 78😷✈️22min$4,774 / mo13Mbps×Generally favorable on Antalya, but not perfect. The weather was excellent (~26 C almost every day) and the nature of the city is absolutely stunning. The mountains on the west side of the city seem to just explode out of the ocean and it's special to see. That said, the built environment is pretty uninspiring. The center of the city is full of interesting restaurants and shops, but outside of the old town it's not very exciting to look at. My primary complaint, however, is on public transit. It
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 27° 80°AQI 67✈️26min$980 / mo8Mbps×I rented a house at the bottom of Mount Kassioun for a few months in 2004, in the French-style, newer part of Damascus, near the US Embassy. There's also the walled (with several different entrances) ancient, warren-like, oval-shaped city, which is about a mile across with lots of markets, small hotels and restaurants. I hear post-war Damascus, unlike Aleppo, is fairly intact.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 28° 83°AQI 134😷✈️26min$2,808 / mo×One of my favourite places to visit. Best vegetarian food in the world.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 95😷✈️27min$5,591 / mo13Mbps×Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 25✈️3h$4,293 / mo24Mbps×Quite expensive for such an ugly place. Weather in the winter is not that great...I'd go to Antalya/Kas or even Albanian coast if you need to be outside Schengen Zone in the winter and want something with a mild temp.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 62🚕2h$3,372 / mo8Mbps×Moscow is a great city, especially for young and adult people. Many business here and a lot of fun. Cheap taxi. Very clean city. Online delivery 24-hours for everything! Great and cheap subway (metro). Many cultural experience, good and different food. Fast Internet and free wifi in most of public places.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 13✈️3h$2,709 / mo11Mbps×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 16° 60°AQI 25✈️4h$5,919 / mo14Mbps×Amazing city and underrated so far. But it'll become very popular at some point so take a chance to visit now. Amazing people, great and unique food, incredible nature, one f the biggest visa permits (365 days). On top of that you can open the company and pay 1% income tax as a freelancer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 19✈️2h$1,391 / mo13Mbps×Incredible city for nomads. In autumn/winter you'll have to deal with the cold, but there's still stuff going on. - Using the tram and uber was rare. Stay in Kazimierz or Stare Miasto and you get anywhere interesting in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 32✈️3h$1,781 / mo35Mbps×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 mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 57✈️3h$4,457 / mo13Mbps×I was in Dubai for 1 week, It's the best place for doing business and modern lifestyle, You can see an impressive infrastructure and what the mankind can build.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 40° 104° 33° 91°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$3,345 / mo8Mbps×Not bad for period from mid April till end of August when everything is green, cheap food, friendly people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 30° 87°🥵AQI 61✈️2h$1,539 / mo30Mbps×I am a Greek living abroad just the last couple of years. I accidentally discovered this page and noticed the comments below. What I can recommend to people considering living in Athens is to explore places a bit outside of the city center. I agree with people that there are many areas very close to the city center that are dirty and perhaps not very safe to walk around at night. Explore areas like Glyfada, Voula, Kifisia, Marousi, Psychiko, Marousi and you will be amazed with how different it i
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 74✈️1h$2,966 / mo9Mbps×Quite expensive for such an ugly place. Weather in the winter is not that great...I'd go to Antalya/Kas or even Albanian coast if you need to be outside Schengen Zone in the winter and want something with a mild temp.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 71🚕2h$2,573 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×Not quite as bad as Paphos, but still quite ugly and empty feeling, and, as with everywhere in Cyprus, way too expensive for what you get.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 62🚕2h$3,372 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people×I visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 65°AQI 34✈️3h$2,837 / mo🌇 Also went here46 people×I've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 26✈️3h$4,206 / mo🌇 Also went here41 people×Moscow is a great city, especially for young and adult people. Many business here and a lot of fun. Cheap taxi. Very clean city. Online delivery 24-hours for everything! Great and cheap subway (metro). Many cultural experience, good and different food. Fast Internet and free wifi in most of public places.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 13✈️3h$2,709 / mo🌇 Also went here36 people×I was in Dubai for 1 week, It's the best place for doing business and modern lifestyle, You can see an impressive infrastructure and what the mankind can build.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 40° 104° 33° 91°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$3,345 / mo🌇 Also went here42 people×Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 25✈️3h$4,293 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 17✈️4h$3,803 / mo🌇 Also went here43 people×A lot more things to do there on Summer than on Winter, even though the city is beautiful both seasons. Wouldn't recommend going there in the beginning of spring or late autumn since it'd be mostly rainy and cold. On Summer I recommend just walking around the city and checking out all the architecture and drinking beer on the beach of Hietalahti or taking a ferry to Suomenlinna and having a picnic day there. Linnanmäki amusement park is also nice if you are traveling with children. On Winter I
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 75✈️4h$4,237 / mo🌇 Also went here42 people×I spent a month here in January. It's beautiful, and there are plenty of touristy things to do, however the city is very expensive. There are plenty of places to shop, which is the main reason why I went. There are also plenty of WeWorks scattered across the city if you need somewhere consistent to work. The people weren't rude to me, but that's because I always greet people in French before asking for help or information, so to avoid rudeness, I'd suggest learning basic greetings and how to ask
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 21✈️4h$4,396 / mo🌇 Also went here38 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 16° 60°AQI 25✈️4h$5,919 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 25✈️4h$5,006 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×For a European capital, there's not much to do. It's extremely overpriced for what it offers. Did not find the locals nearly as friendly as sources say. Food is very meh. Grocery stores are disorganized and everything close to expiry. You will have to beg and compete to find a dump of an apartment for under $2,000 euro/month. Maybe quality of life is better in the suburbs, but the city centre and surrounding area is not an attractive place to live. Overall, just avoid. For a similar price, you
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 16° 60°AQI 7✈️5h$5,110 / mo🌇 Also went here41 people×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 17✈️11h$3,595 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 65°AQI 5✈️12h$5,566 / mo🌇 Also went here36 people×