⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1315) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,705 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 11Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 5°C40°F (feels 2°C36°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 93% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 50 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 (18x18m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | 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) | 11 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 5°C 40°F + 💦 Damp (93%) = feels 2°C 36°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 50 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.32 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 132 |
💸 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 | $2,705 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,307 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,982 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,423 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $866 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,295 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,266 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $108 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $184 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ 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
❌ Expensive
❌ 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% |
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% |
Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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