⭐️ Total score | 2.66/5 (Rank #700) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍78% liked it 👎22% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,030 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 9Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 76% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 10 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 80 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Low: $1,268 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Uruguay |
⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (76%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 10 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 80 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 UYU in USD | USD 2.59 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UYU 10,000 = USD 259 |
💻 Best coworking space | Sinergia Cowork |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Co-Work Lat Am |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 930,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 17,823 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $15,221 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 79% 👱♀️ 21% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | American Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,030 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,293 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,216 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,205 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,075 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,498 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $910 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $50 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $115 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $157 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $10 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8228° warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5513° cool | 5412° cool | 5714° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7524° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 70% | nice 77% | nice 74% | nice 75% | damp 71% | damp 75% | damp 72% | damp 77% | damp 83% | nice 66% | nice 67% | nice 68% |
Rain | rainy 79mm | rainy 143mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 102mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 70mm | dry 48mm | rainy 59mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 72mm | dry 10mm |
Cloud | pockets 34% | pockets 46% | pockets 49% | pockets 38% | pockets 49% | cloudy 69% | pockets 49% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 70% | pockets 34% | pockets 44% | pockets 37% |
Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI |
Remote workers | 855 people | 740 people | 782 people | 600 people | 600 people | 244 people | 333 people | 400 people | 311 people | 556 people | 889 people | 429 people |
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i stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 10✈️16min$1,860 / mo26Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 10✈️57min$1,600 / mo4Mbps×Great place to live! Florianopolis is such a beautiful city, from the beaches to the buildings in Beira Mar Norte, I loved everything. I lived in Coqueiros for 7 months and was awesome, quiet place, safe and lots of great restaurants to eat.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 83°🥵AQI 31✈️1h$2,363 / mo3Mbps×Very nice and underrated city. Many parks, and things to do. The best neighborhoods are Centro (near Shopping Estacao) and Batel (near Praca Japao). You can do everything on foot. Everything is cheap by European standards. The nightlife is very good, Latin America standard. Women are beautiful. Security is okay in these neighborhoods, but be aware. English speaking is only possible with young people or some adults. The weather is good and comfortable in the fall. One of my favorite cities in Bra
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 31✈️2h$1,369 / mo6Mbps×i stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 10✈️16min$1,860 / mo26Mbps×Unfortunately this was supposed to be the best economy in LATAM but what I found instead was a very over priced for what you get experience. People are rude in general, until you get to meet them personally, and the country is way behind in infrastructure, innovation and culture that most countries around it. Not worth your time and money at all.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 29° 84°AQI 74✈️2h$2,230 / mo7Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°🥵AQI 8✈️2h$2,294 / mo6Mbps×👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 102😷✈️7h$1,582 / mo5Mbps×I concur with the most recent review before mine. This city is great for foodies, the Internet + cellular is great, cafe pasado in Tambo+ convenience stores is dope. Do try all the S/ 12 lunchtime menu del dia all over the city! Calle Chinchon at San Isidro has a lot of the good ones. Nightlife: As an Asian man I found myself better accepted by Peruvian girls than in Colombia. Downside: Public transport is nearly non-existant compared to CDMX and Medellin. But Indrive and Uber are cheap enough.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 2✈️4h$1,416 / mo4Mbps×Great place to live! Florianopolis is such a beautiful city, from the beaches to the buildings in Beira Mar Norte, I loved everything. I lived in Coqueiros for 7 months and was awesome, quiet place, safe and lots of great restaurants to eat.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 83°🥵AQI 31✈️1h$2,363 / mo3Mbps×Been to 29 cities in 6 months and I can say Rio is AMAZING. However not safe at all, by my first week I knew a total of 10 people that got robbed (3 groups). I've been living here for almost 1 month recharging from fast traveling and haven't been robbed.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 8✈️2h$2,439 / mo4Mbps×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 72✈️13h$4,607 / mo21Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 10✈️57min$1,600 / mo4Mbps×According to the World Happiness Report, San José in Costa Rica is the 11th "happiest city" (in terms of how positively the inhabitants currently evaluate their lives on average) among 186 cities across the globe. In this ranking, the top cities have often a much higher cost of living.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 17✈️8h$2,707 / mo4Mbps×i stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 10✈️16min$1,860 / mo🌇 Also went here249 people×Unfortunately this was supposed to be the best economy in LATAM but what I found instead was a very over priced for what you get experience. People are rude in general, until you get to meet them personally, and the country is way behind in infrastructure, innovation and culture that most countries around it. Not worth your time and money at all.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 29° 84°AQI 74✈️2h$2,230 / mo🌇 Also went here131 people×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°🥵AQI 8✈️2h$2,294 / mo🌇 Also went here127 people×Been to 29 cities in 6 months and I can say Rio is AMAZING. However not safe at all, by my first week I knew a total of 10 people that got robbed (3 groups). I've been living here for almost 1 month recharging from fast traveling and haven't been robbed.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 8✈️2h$2,439 / mo🌇 Also went here117 people×👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 102😷✈️7h$1,582 / mo🌇 Also went here113 people×I really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 15° 58°AQI 126😷✈️10h$1,842 / mo🌇 Also went here104 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 -8° 18° -4° 24°AQI 18✈️11h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here131 people×I'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 57✈️13h$3,425 / mo🌇 Also went here132 people×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 72✈️13h$4,607 / mo🌇 Also went here138 people×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 60✈️14h$5,390 / mo🌇 Also went here161 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 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 33✈️15h$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here146 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 goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 25✈️15h$5,205 / mo🌇 Also went here160 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 goodTap to open🌦 Feels 8° 46° 8° 46°AQI 39✈️15h$6,517 / mo🌇 Also went here120 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️16h$3,887 / mo🌇 Also went here135 people×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open✈️16h$2,331 / mo🌇 Also went here110 people×