⭐️ Overall Score | 3.15/5 (Rank #383) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,386 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 19°C67°F (feels 20°C68°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 62% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 29 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very Low: $324 / mo |
🙊 English speaking | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare | Okay |
😄 Happiness | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Region | Europe |
🚩 Country | Azerbaijan |
⏱ Average trip duration | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 19°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (62%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 29 US AQI 🍃 good |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Azercell |
💸 10 AZN in USD | USD 5.88 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AZN 1,000 = USD 588 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe City |
🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 5% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $3,892 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azerbaijan Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Azerbaijan Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | International SOS Baku |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,386 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $764 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,682 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $481 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $323 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $136 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $1,154 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $54 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (200 listings) | $1,082 / month |
🏠 Airbnb | $35 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.24 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 468° cold | 436° cold | 468° cold | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° warm | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 5412° cool | 5010° cold |
Real | 5010° cold | 468° cold | 5010° cold | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 8530° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 5614° cool | 5211° cool |
Humidity | nice 65% | nice 67% | nice 66% | nice 64% | nice 62% | nice 49% | nice 59% | nice 53% | nice 59% | nice 65% | nice 63% | nice 67% |
Rain | dry 14mm | dry 21mm | dry 15mm | dry 15mm | dry 11mm | dry 4mm | dry 5mm | dry 6mm | dry 6mm | dry 3mm | dry 22mm | dry 13mm |
Cloud | cloudy 56% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 69% | pockets 48% | pockets 32% | pockets 33% | clear 1% | clear 9% | pockets 27% | pockets 23% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 72% |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Nomad List members | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people |
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⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 90😷✈️8h$919 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 46✈️8h$1,426 / mo🌇 Also went here28 people×Only thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 40° 104° 32° 89°🥵AQI 68✈️9h$975 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×First time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 61✈️9h$1,295 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people×They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 55✈️9h$2,902 / mo🌇 Also went here22 people×Bali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 41✈️11h$1,348 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×
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