⭐️ Total score | 2.7/5 (Rank #674) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Good |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,934 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 72Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 77% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 78 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 80 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ 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* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Uruguay |
⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 72 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (77%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 78 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 80 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 UYU in USD | USD 2.56 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UYU 10,000 = USD 256 |
💻 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) | 👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
🏞 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 | $2,934 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,836 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,040 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $868 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,252 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,820 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $458 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $59 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $92 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $155 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $13 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $7,106 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $22 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $9 / trip |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ 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+
❌ Expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ 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% |
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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 | 933 people | 708 people | 783 people | 844 people | 833 people | 291 people | 486 people | 467 people | 380 people | 618 people | 1,040 people | 493 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 30° 85°🥵AQI 33✈️57min$1,496 / mo17Mbps×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 46✈️1h$1,911 / mo86Mbps×BA is the safest city in the world, just after Tijuana and Caracas! But if you ask the local Porteños, they'll assure you Argentina is THE BEST around the globe, whatever the matter in discussion. :-D With all the slums, poverty and ignorant population, a true 3rd world country, made of rude people, they didn't need to be so ridiculously arrogant. 😅
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 59😷✈️2h$2,090 / mo33Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 50° 122° 32° 89°🥵AQI 107😷✈️2h$1,974 / mo98Mbps×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 53😷✈️4h$1,301 / mo173Mbps×Liked Madrid,but its a bit dangerous in the evening and way to expensive! people can be really nice when they meet you but after a while you realize all it's not what it seems. And Barcelona is exactly the same.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 61😷✈️10h$6,033 / mo74Mbps×BA is the safest city in the world, just after Tijuana and Caracas! But if you ask the local Porteños, they'll assure you Argentina is THE BEST around the globe, whatever the matter in discussion. :-D With all the slums, poverty and ignorant population, a true 3rd world country, made of rude people, they didn't need to be so ridiculously arrogant. 😅
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 30✈️2h$2,763 / mo🌇 Also went here166 people×The stats are stats are super misleading and the reviews here as well. Locals are staring to recent digital nomads for the rise of housing prices and for it not paying taxes. It is really unfortunate, but I am let down by this city and the people. The only reason this city is popular is because all the single male wanting to go to parties and passport bros, if you are a female digital nomad you won’t feel any of this because most people that go there are male and are the ones causing the probl
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 59😷✈️7h$1,459 / mo🌇 Also went here148 people×I stayed here for 6 months and I absolutely love Mexico City. The life is comfortable if you stay in the bubbles, namely Roma Norte, Condesa and Polanco, but the living cost has increased 30% since last year, due to the inflation and skyrocketing mexican pesos. Mexican people are so friendly and I never had any safety issues. Definitely will be back in the future.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 19✈️13h$3,367 / mo🌇 Also went here185 people×Liked Madrid,but its a bit dangerous in the evening and way to expensive! people can be really nice when they meet you but after a while you realize all it's not what it seems. And Barcelona is exactly the same.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 21✈️13h$4,141 / mo🌇 Also went here184 people×Pros: Weather is great and apartments are excellent. Cons: City is dirty including the beaches. Locals are extremely hostile, unfriendly and confrontational. There isn't a huge amount of good things to do in the city - most things are mediocre. People constantly bash into you in the street. Food and coffee is very average. Crime is awful - my apartment was broken into and my suitcase got stolen from the baggage belt at the airport. Air quality is terrible.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 46✈️14h$3,846 / mo🌇 Also went here208 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”.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌨 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 8✈️15h$5,656 / mo🌇 Also went here162 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 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌨 Feels -4° 25° -1° 31°AQI 42✈️16h$3,912 / mo🌇 Also went here177 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 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️16h$2,591 / mo🌇 Also went here140 people×