⭐️ Total score | 3.04/5 (Rank #160) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,880 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 19Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Freezing : -2°C28°F (feels -4°C25°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 83% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 55 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 52 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Low: $1,028 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Poland |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 19 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 -2°C 28°F + 💦 Damp (83%) = feels -4°C 25°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 55 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 52.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 PLN in USD | USD 2.26 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PLN 1,000 = USD 226 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 10% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | http://atmosfera |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Locus |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 700,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $12,332 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 41% 👱♀️ 59% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 97% 👱♀️ 3% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Saturn |
🏠 Apartment listings | GumTree |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Wizzair |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Lufthansa |
🏥 Best hospital | W. Bieganski Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,880 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,205 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,129 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $608 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,017 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,944 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $406 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $48 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $64 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $176 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,660 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $28,660 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $76,660 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 27-3° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 373° cold | 436° cold | 5513° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 27-3° freezing |
Real | 320° freezing | 31-1° freezing | 415° very cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 6820° mild | 6317° cool | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 320° freezing |
Humidity | damp 84% | damp 79% | damp 74% | damp 71% | damp 75% | nice 68% | nice 75% | nice 76% | damp 75% | nice 69% | damp 79% | damp 79% |
Rain | rainy 60mm | dry 42mm | dry 33mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 148mm | dry 34mm | dry 25mm | rainy 53mm | dry 48mm |
Cloud | overcast 93% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 87% |
Air quality | okay 100 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 74 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
Remote workers | 280 people | 267 people | 267 people | 320 people | 300 people | 250 people | 350 people | 314 people | 433 people | 350 people | 300 people | 250 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27°AQI 164😷✈️15min$2,555 / mo19Mbps×Great city with a lot of students, cheap and walkable. After a year it was kind of boring, so I moved to another destination. I like it. Long live Lubelskie!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌤 Feels -5° 23° -2° 29°AQI 159😷✈️18min$1,801 / mo16Mbps×I'm Polish and I've been to Gdańsk a number of times over the course of the last 10 years. When I was younger and have seen and experienced less, I was very impressed by the old town. However, these days, after having seen most of Europe and some of the US, I can't help but feel that Gdansk's old town is small and everything that surrounds it has a distinct, post-communist feel, which I do not enjoy. I was there this summer (2022) and it felt like being in an amusement park, with many of the ap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -1° 30° 1° 34°AQI 26✈️23min$2,339 / mo16Mbps×Kaliningrad is great city! Most of "scores" and "Pros and Cons" are not true. Because of Baltic Sea, it's quite warm here in winter, not much of snow. But yes, humidity is quite high. Cannabis is illegal! Be attentive! People are tolerant, no matter who you are if you have good maneers.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 18✈️27min$2,566 / mo11Mbps×I lived in Brno for 6 months and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's a small city with nothing to do for expats. There are a few cafés and some nice bars but nothing really special plus. I really don't mean to be rude but Czech people are no fun. It's just...boring and dull. Generally speaking people here, even millennials, don't speak English. I found it very hard to do basic stuff like go to stores in the supermarket because nobody speaks English. There are waaaay better places to go to a
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels -2° 28° 0° 31°AQI 123😷✈️28min$2,710 / mo12Mbps×How the f is this city in the #1 spot for europe? Is the Warsaw city council paying for the spot? I spent a month here mostly to help during the ukraine refugee crisis. This was the most meh city I've visited in my life. People are incredibly cold. They have this attitude (I was about to write slavic, but actually I've been to other slavic countries and they've been really friendly, so I don't want to bunch them together) kind of a cold indifference, but you can never tell if they're purposeful
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -3° 27° -1° 30°AQI 143😷🚕4h$2,640 / mo16Mbps×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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 21✈️11h$4,495 / mo16Mbps×I was in Munich for 9 months and couldn't get used to the city. It's actually a small town for old and rich people. The flair is not international, but terribly German-conservative. There is neither an interesting start-up nor a tech community. Many people are unfriendly when you speak English. The leisure activities outside Munich (nature) are nice, unfortunately there is not much going on in the city compared to London, Berlin or Barcelona. In Germany, everyone seems to want to go to Berlin, s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels -3° 27° 0° 31°AQI 24✈️55min$4,239 / mo51Mbps×Bad walkability? Oslo is known for its great walkability and accessibility to nature. The public transport system is also great, and the city is safe. However, the downside is that it is a very expensive city. Basic items like fruits, vegetables, meat and even beer can be costly. Additionally, the import system in Norway is very protective, which means that grocery stores often only carry products that are made in Norway.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels -2° 28° -2° 28°AQI 39✈️1h$4,878 / mo40Mbps×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 49✈️2h$5,438 / mo19Mbps×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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 23✈️13h$6,520 / mo70Mbps×How the f is this city in the #1 spot for europe? Is the Warsaw city council paying for the spot? I spent a month here mostly to help during the ukraine refugee crisis. This was the most meh city I've visited in my life. People are incredibly cold. They have this attitude (I was about to write slavic, but actually I've been to other slavic countries and they've been really friendly, so I don't want to bunch them together) kind of a cold indifference, but you can never tell if they're purposeful
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -3° 27° -1° 30°AQI 143😷🚕4h$2,640 / mo🌇 Also went here74 people×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 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27°AQI 164😷✈️15min$2,555 / mo🌇 Also went here68 people×I'm Polish and I've been to Gdańsk a number of times over the course of the last 10 years. When I was younger and have seen and experienced less, I was very impressed by the old town. However, these days, after having seen most of Europe and some of the US, I can't help but feel that Gdansk's old town is small and everything that surrounds it has a distinct, post-communist feel, which I do not enjoy. I was there this summer (2022) and it felt like being in an amusement park, with many of the ap
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels -2° 28° 0° 31°AQI 26✈️34min$4,041 / mo🌇 Also went here67 people×Extremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels -2° 28° 0° 32°AQI 80😷✈️36min$4,872 / mo🌇 Also went here60 people×Young and cheap city. Most people can communicate in english. Locals are warmer than in other baltic countries but don't expect to make many local friends. Many foreigners thanks to the university.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels -4° 25° -2° 28°AQI 36✈️40min$3,270 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×I was in Munich for 9 months and couldn't get used to the city. It's actually a small town for old and rich people. The flair is not international, but terribly German-conservative. There is neither an interesting start-up nor a tech community. Many people are unfriendly when you speak English. The leisure activities outside Munich (nature) are nice, unfortunately there is not much going on in the city compared to London, Berlin or Barcelona. In Germany, everyone seems to want to go to Berlin, s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels -3° 27° 0° 31°AQI 24✈️55min$4,239 / mo🌇 Also went here53 people×Bad walkability? Oslo is known for its great walkability and accessibility to nature. The public transport system is also great, and the city is safe. However, the downside is that it is a very expensive city. Basic items like fruits, vegetables, meat and even beer can be costly. Additionally, the import system in Norway is very protective, which means that grocery stores often only carry products that are made in Norway.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels -2° 28° -2° 28°AQI 39✈️1h$4,878 / mo🌇 Also went here57 people×Super expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 3° 37° 5° 40°AQI 87😷✈️1h$5,428 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 49✈️2h$5,438 / mo🌇 Also went here57 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 63✈️2h$5,477 / mo🌇 Also went here63 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 43✈️9h$6,299 / mo🌇 Also went here55 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 23✈️13h$6,520 / mo🌇 Also went here50 people×