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| ⭐️ Overall score | 212 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 24 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Nanjing is fast averaging 16 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~2 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (71%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 99 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.27 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 127 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Maan Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 3% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 7,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 14x14m (196m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 57% 👱♀️ 43% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Eastern |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | General Hospital of Nanjing Military Base |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €990 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €553 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,141 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €326 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €280 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €42 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €826 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €39 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 436° cold | 415° cold | 6116° cool | 7021° mild | 8127° warm | 9032° hot | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 489° cold |
| Real | 457° cold | 447° cold | 6116° cool | 6921° mild | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 5010° cold |
| Humidity | nice 69% | damp 76% | nice 63% | nice 67% | nice 53% | nice 67% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 73% | nice 65% | nice 61% | nice 67% |
| Rain | dry 28mm | dry 43mm | dry 15mm | dry 30mm | dry 33mm | dry 38mm | dry 46mm | rainy 76mm | dry 13mm | dry 3mm | dry 14mm | dry 27mm |
| Cloud | pockets 42% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 71% | pockets 38% | pockets 31% | cloudy 64% | pockets 50% | cloudy 66% |
| Air quality | bad 155 US AQI | bad 144 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 124 US AQI | bad 110 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 145 US AQI |
| Sun | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 0 people | 1 people |
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