⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1351) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,977 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 21Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Freezing : -7°C20°F (feels -12°C10°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 96% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 53 US AQI |
👌 Safety | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Sprawling: 3k ppl/km² (1 per 18x18m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Russia |
⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 21 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌨 -7°C 20°F + 💦 Damp (96%) = feels -12°C 10°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 53 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.10 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 110 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Soul Project |
☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee-Club Bessonnitsa |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 18x18m (324m²) per person |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Avito |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ural Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
🏥 Best hospital | Nizhniy Novgorod Regional Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,977 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,348 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,872 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $535 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $635 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,745 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $294 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $30 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $90 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $153 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ 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 | 18-8° freezing | -4-20° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 457° cold | 6619° mild | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 5211° cool | 489° cold | 28-2° freezing | 16-9° freezing |
Real | 23-5° freezing | 5-15° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 489° cold | 6619° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 7725° warm | 5312° cool | 5010° cold | 341° very cold | 21-6° freezing |
Humidity | damp 88% | damp 77% | damp 85% | damp 75% | nice 63% | nice 63% | nice 56% | nice 56% | damp 76% | damp 75% | damp 87% | damp 84% |
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Rain | rainy 67mm | rainy 69mm | dry 25mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 77mm | dry 27mm | dry 27mm | dry 16mm | rainy 56mm | dry 27mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 66mm |
Cloud | overcast 98% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 69% | pockets 44% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 79% | overcast 94% | overcast 92% |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels -14° 7° -11° 11°AQI 35✈️1h$1,604 / mo19Mbps×I am from Moscow but grew up abroad. It's a lovely city, it's hard to find another city that matches the amount of cultural activities there are. Every day there are at least 2 festivals, 3 major concerts and tons of shows in theaters. The best season is winter and summer. The amount of decorations in the winter is incomparable (to London for example)! Snow adds magic to the city and if you are worried about the cold, there are plenty of shops with high quality winter clothes at decent prices. T
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