⭐️ Total score | 2.66/5 (Rank #1238) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,926 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 36°C97°F (feels 55°C131°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 73% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 109 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 84 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 36°C 97°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 55°C 131°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 109 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 84 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 770,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,926 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,239 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,697 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $771 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $474 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $74 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,541 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $72 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 23 listings) | $2,130 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $70 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 436° cold | 5412° cool | 5412° cool | 6317° cool | 7524° warm | 9334° hot | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 9032° hot | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5010° cold |
Real | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 6317° cool | 7524° warm | 8329° very warm | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5211° cool |
Humidity | nice 68% | damp 77% | damp 83% | damp 72% | nice 71% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 84% | nice 73% | nice 66% | nice 60% |
Rain | dry 22mm | dry 46mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 134mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 311mm | rainy 153mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 55mm | dry 6mm |
Cloud | cloudy 53% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 78% | overcast 91% | cloudy 89% | overcast 94% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 61% | pockets 47% | pockets 34% |
Air quality | bad 159 US AQI | bad 150 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | bad 131 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
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