⭐️ Total score | 3.53/5 (Rank #151) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,100 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 91Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Hot: 27°C81°F (feels 31°C88°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 79% |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 60 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $704 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (1 per 15x15m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* | Okay |
🧳 Lost luggage* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Mexico |
🗓️ Average trip length | 13 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 91 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 27°C 81°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 MXN in USD | USD 5.42 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MXN 10,000 = USD 542 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | El Cowork |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Coworking Monterrey |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍11% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,444 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Linio |
🏠 Apartment listings | Avisosdeocasion |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Volaris |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeromexico |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,100 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,324 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,176 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $907 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,301 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,274 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $690 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $61 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $173 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $5,323 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $12 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 8630° warm | 8831° hot | 8429° warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8127° warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild |
Real | 6116° cool | 6116° cool | 7524° warm | 8228° very warm | 8731° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild |
Humidity | too dry 24% | too dry 28% | too dry 27% | nice 32% | nice 36% | nice 35% | nice 38% | nice 35% | nice 34% | nice 35% | nice 35% | too dry 26% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 19mm | dry 14mm | dry 16mm | dry 45mm | rainy 56mm | dry 42mm | dry 44mm | dry 34mm | rainy 118mm | rainy 74mm | dry 41mm | dry 21mm |
Cloud | pockets 17% | pockets 14% | pockets 17% | pockets 30% | pockets 34% | pockets 24% | pockets 36% | pockets 22% | pockets 26% | pockets 29% | pockets 25% | pockets 21% |
Air quality | okay 62 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 69 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 333 people | 275 people | 520 people | 371 people | 250 people | 400 people | 500 people | 275 people | 467 people | 360 people | 733 people | 300 people |
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Good city to live in, welcoming to foreigners. Lived here for decades and always felt welcome by the people. Cost of living is low, only negative thing is that it is relarively new, with no real historic areas, and there isn’t as much to do as there is in other larger cities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°✈️26min$1,788 / mo16Mbps×Where cowboys and the wild west truly started, San Antonio is a beautiful and historic city with many layers to explore within and outside the city. It's a hotter town than Austin, not just in temperature, but also in terms of friendliness, activities, family values, and cultural richness (with authentic tacos of all types, Tex-Mex, Cali style, and from Mexico City), it has one of the best culinary and cocktail scenes in the country. It's one of the most affordable for millennials in the States
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵✈️36min$3,715 / mo54Mbps×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°✈️56min$1,965 / mo58Mbps×In it's current iteration, Houston is a wide-spread, vehicle dependent city and would be a difficult place to exist as a Nomad without a vehicle. Downtown Houston was once a desolate cluster of office buildings that was abandoned at sundown. But now, downtown is currently undergoing a transformation and will soon (5~ years) make for an inhabitable and nomad friendly destination.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 15✈️53min$3,615 / mo101Mbps×I spent a month here. I think it's a livable city but I don't know the value of living here long-term compared to other cities in LatAm. Pros: - Great bar and restaurant scene. Coffee shops are really chill. Service is really good for the most part, but everyone is too cool to be friendly (hipsters). - It doesn't feel too unsafe, especially if you're not out late at night. It's no worse than any US coastal city. Maybe even safer. (came from Chicago, definitely safer than Chicago) - There are so
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 6✈️51min$1,727 / mo90Mbps×Safe, because it's basically a police state. Two cop cars on every block. After you've done the tourist stuff there really isn't much to do. Almost no nightlife center, flat, no parks, and I have to say it's a very boring city. If you just need a place that is cheaper than Playa Del Carmen and want to rent a house to hole up and work, then Merida might be for you. Personally after a week I found it very boring.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 46° 115° 34° 93°🥵✈️2h$1,674 / mo16Mbps×Panama City very interesting and slept on. Probably the most developed major city in Latin America with the strongest technology infrastructure which makes it very appealing for digital nomads. Also a lot of international business coming through here so there can definitely be good networking opportunities. It’s also super safe compared to other South American hotspots like Medellin however it is significantly more expensive. I would say prices here are slightly less expensive than southern s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵✈️4h$2,516 / mo30Mbps×It's obscenely expensive for low quality service with kinda mean people. Not nice. The regulations and taxes here are insane too. You pay a neighbourhood tax, district tax, city tax, county tax and then state tax on every payment you make! The traffic here is insane too. And just getting from place to place is difficult because city is so gigantic. We talked to our hotel's manager here and he struggles a lot with the insane amount of rules California tells him to follow. It makes it hard to st
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 60😷✈️3h$5,280 / mo117Mbps×I loved my stay in Austin. I had heard a lot of people moved here during COVID and wanted to see it for myself. We stayed around Lady Bird Lake, like on the south side of the river, a very nice area. We were there in July so it was quite hot, but in the shadow it was fine to walk. It is dry heat, not like in Thailand, so while it's hot it's not sweaty which is much better. The average quality of food here is very high, like some of the best food I had in the world besides maybe Japan. Not eve
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵✈️45min$3,692 / mo74Mbps×Just spent almost two weeks here after a two week stay in SMA. This is a very pretty town, but 2 weeks is too long (3 days max if you just want to vacation). There are many many steps and hills, so walking is the best way to get around. I felt safe in the tourist areas, but with many narrow passageways, be careful if you are alone. There is a lot of dogs barking at all hours that echo due to this area being a valley. There is very little green space. Also, not sure if there was some recent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°✈️42min$2,613 / mo16Mbps×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 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️4h$6,831 / mo56Mbps×San Cris is actually dangerous and getting more dangerous, so know that if you go there. Of course, nomads in their bubbles will rarely see it but do a simple google search of news related, there's been a huge uptick in violence over the past few years. I experienced it while living there. Personally really wouldn't recommend to people unless you like the idea of being in a city that is going to eventually become a warzone
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°✈️2h$2,329 / mo30Mbps×Second time in Puerto and a lot has changed in the last year. The secret is out. Construction is rampant everywhere, it’s just build, build, build and it’s only going to get more intense. The new highway has opened up, which makes the trip from Oaxaca only 3 hours. Local Mexicans come for long weekends since the drive is now tolerable, which is packing the town. It feels like the majority of foreigners I meet either want to start a business or own real estate here. I never made it to Bali,
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°✈️2h$1,948 / mo30Mbps×I spent a month here. I think it's a livable city but I don't know the value of living here long-term compared to other cities in LatAm. Pros: - Great bar and restaurant scene. Coffee shops are really chill. Service is really good for the most part, but everyone is too cool to be friendly (hipsters). - It doesn't feel too unsafe, especially if you're not out late at night. It's no worse than any US coastal city. Maybe even safer. (came from Chicago, definitely safer than Chicago) - There are so
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 6✈️51min$1,727 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°✈️56min$1,965 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×Loved this city! It is not big although has great nightlife, coworkings, amazing streetart and is quite cheap. Although, when I visited in December 2021 they had problems with garbage removal.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°✈️1h$2,170 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×Playa has been really good to me. The digital nomad community (at least over my winter stay) has been INCREDIBLE. Join the Facebook groups, find the WhatsApp groups - it’s so easy to meet others. The beach is ok, seaweed isn’t as bad in winter but it’s very visible and does smell. It rarely kills my beach day. The city has so many conveinces and is very walkable - it’s perfect for someone looking to work and enjoy themselves. Internet has been stable and fast. I get it’s not authentic,
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵✈️2h$2,722 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵✈️3h$5,212 / mo🌇 Also went here24 people×I just came back after 12 years, last time I lived in SF for 3 months in 2012. Back then it was a walkable and clean and fun, pretty safe city. The only place back then that you'd avoid was the Tenderloin. There was homeless but they actually weren't aggressive. There wasn't much robberies either. San Francisco in 2024 is very different, as you've probably seen from social media. The homeless problem has grown a lot since then, and they're not just clustered in the Tenderloin, they're all over
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°✈️3h$6,318 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️4h$6,831 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×Was great when I visited in 2019, unfortunately upon returning, things have gotten worse. Locals are tired of gentrification and over tourism, and the vibe is not the same. It has attracted a lot of the wrong type of foreigners.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 80😷✈️5h$1,670 / mo🌇 Also went here28 people×As a local living in Buenos Aires, renting a one bedroom apartment by myself, working from home and being very frugal (I don't dine out, I don't get take-out, I don't travel), I spend around USD 800 a month. If I buy myself something like a new bag or pair of jeans that number goes up by at least USD 100 (current value of USD 1 is ARS 1400). The cost of living for a local is severely outdated. It's more like the cost of living for an expat now.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°✈️11h$1,540 / mo🌇 Also went here27 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 28° 82° 26° 80°AQI 29✈️11h$3,868 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 25✈️11h$5,699 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 36° 97° 36° 96°🥵AQI 63😷✈️12h$3,554 / mo🌇 Also went here27 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 55😷✈️12h$5,433 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°AQI 34✈️12h$4,593 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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