⭐️ Total score | 3.29/5 (Rank #323) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,037 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 108Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 31°C88°F (feels 39°C102°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 75% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 57 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 68 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $493 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Thailand |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 108 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 31°C 88°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75%) = feels 39°C 102°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 68.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | AIS |
💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.83 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 283 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | True Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,600,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,911 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
🏠 Apartment listings | Prakard |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,037 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $599 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,120 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $320 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $170 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $207 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $497 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $23 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 43 listings) | $1,162 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Feels | 8429° warm | 9133° hot | 10641° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 9937° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° warm |
Real | 8228° very warm | 8731° hot | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | nice 58% | nice 52% | nice 56% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 71% | nice 68% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 78% | nice 64% |
Rain | dry 1mm | dry 11mm | rainy 51mm | rainy 220mm | rainy 119mm | dry 40mm | rainy 206mm | rainy 206mm | rainy 465mm | rainy 240mm | rainy 56mm | dry 6mm |
Cloud | pockets 23% | pockets 24% | pockets 46% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 79% | overcast 90% | overcast 91% | overcast 93% | overcast 98% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 70% | pockets 42% |
Air quality | bad 110 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI | okay 74 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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I cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
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