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| ⭐️ Total score | 6 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Changsha is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 19°C 66°F + 😊 Comfy (54%) = feels 20°C 68°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 157 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 103 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.40 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 140 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Regus |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 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 | $3,094 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,485 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,540 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $726 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,195 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $7,213 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,061 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $56 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $236 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $181 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,609 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Too expensive
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
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10° cold |
55
13° cool |
59
15° cool |
63
17° cool |
75
24° warm |
97
36° hot |
111
44° scorching |
118
48° scorching |
104
40° hot |
68
20° mild |
64
18° cool |
55
13° cool |
| Real |
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mild |
63
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| Humidity |
nice 64% |
damp 89% |
damp 92% |
damp 95% |
nice 91% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 89% |
sweaty 72% |
nice 78% |
nice 66% |
nice 61% |
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| Rain |
dry 27mm |
rainy 114mm |
rainy 145mm |
rainy 189mm |
rainy 282mm |
rainy 153mm |
rainy 139mm |
rainy 168mm |
dry 38mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 65mm |
dry 30mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 73% |
overcast 95% |
overcast 98% |
overcast 92% |
cloudy 86% |
cloudy 85% |
cloudy 86% |
pockets 39% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 63% |
| Air quality |
bad 164 US AQI |
bad 152 US AQI |
bad 138 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 118 US AQI |
bad 152 US AQI |
bad 161 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
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avoid sun 6 UVI |
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avoid sun 8 UVI |
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seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
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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
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