⭐️ Total score | 3.63/5 (Rank #134) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,578 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 52Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 11°C51°F (feels 10°C50°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 54% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 30 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 24 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 52 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 11°C 51°F + 😊 Comfy (54%) = feels 10°C 50°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 24.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Whittier |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Phillips |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | T-mobile |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 410,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jet Blue |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,578 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,232 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,786 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,367 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,100 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $400 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,294 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $107 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 73 listings) | $2,765 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $91 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $11 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ 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
❌ Too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 19-7° freezing | 7-14° freezing | 436° cold | 5010° cold | 6418° cool | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 7323° mild | 6418° cool | 373° cold | 23-5° freezing |
Real | 23-5° freezing | 13-11° freezing | 457° cold | 5111° cool | 6418° cool | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 7323° mild | 6317° cool | 415° very cold | 28-2° freezing |
Humidity | damp 79% | damp 71% | nice 64% | nice 64% | nice 59% | nice 55% | nice 64% | nice 65% | nice 64% | damp 75% | nice 63% | damp 71% |
Rain | dry 27mm | dry 17mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 75mm | dry 49mm | dry 49mm | rainy 94mm | dry 41mm | rainy 53mm | dry 22mm | dry 43mm |
Cloud | cloudy 65% | cloudy 56% | pockets 40% | cloudy 66% | pockets 48% | pockets 28% | pockets 29% | pockets 27% | pockets 30% | cloudy 56% | pockets 47% | cloudy 66% |
Air quality | clean 39 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 400 people | 360 people | 317 people | 400 people | 486 people | 450 people | 556 people | 600 people | 429 people | 400 people | 433 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 46✈️9h$5,005 / mo🌇 Also went here87 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️10h$1,091 / mo🌇 Also went here57 people×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 84°🥵AQI 50✈️18h$1,312 / mo🌇 Also went here69 people×Only thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 41° 106° 30° 87°🥵AQI 68✈️18h$957 / mo🌇 Also went here57 people×