⭐️ Total score | 3.22/5 (Rank #420) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,996 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 85% |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $312 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Good |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Tonga |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (85%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Digicel Tonga |
💸 10 TOP in USD | USD 4.26 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TOP 1,000 = USD 426 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Friends Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Tanoa |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
📸 Visitors per year | 61,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 1,169 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 24,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,748 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Fiji Airways |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Fiji Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | Vaiola Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,996 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,326 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,236 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $639 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $426 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $135 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $945 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $44 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 27 listings) | $2,236 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $73 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 9032° hot | 9032° hot |
Real | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8027° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 90% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 79% | nice 82% | nice 77% | nice 84% | nice 70% | nice 86% | nice 80% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 83% |
Rain | rainy 432mm | rainy 348mm | rainy 200mm | rainy 188mm | rainy 182mm | rainy 83mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 131mm | rainy 50mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 61mm |
Cloud | overcast 95% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 61% |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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