⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1346) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,528 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 12Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Freezing : -13°C9°F (feels -16°C3°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 78% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 8 US AQI |
👌 Safety | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Russia |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌫 -13°C 9°F + 💦 Damp (78%) = feels -16°C 3°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 8 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.39 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 139 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Traveler's Coffee |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Shelter OMSK |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 41% 👱♀️ 59% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
🏥 Best hospital | Fresenius Medical Care |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,528 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $928 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,411 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $403 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $874 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,368 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $237 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $45 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $63 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ 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
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ 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 not that great
❌ 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 | -18-28° freezing | -8-22° freezing | 18-8° freezing | 415° cold | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 5211° cool | 415° cold | 16-9° freezing | 12-11° freezing |
Real | -6-21° freezing | 3-16° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 457° cold | 7021° mild | 6921° mild | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 5312° cool | 457° cold | 23-5° freezing | 19-7° freezing |
Humidity | nice 67% | damp 72% | damp 83% | nice 70% | nice 41% | nice 57% | nice 54% | nice 61% | nice 67% | damp 72% | damp 80% | damp 81% |
Rain | dry 22mm | dry 34mm | dry 42mm | dry 22mm | dry 26mm | rainy 57mm | dry 42mm | rainy 61mm | dry 32mm | dry 24mm | dry 26mm | dry 25mm |
Cloud | cloudy 69% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 81% |
Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 300 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 300 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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