⭐️ Total score | 2.55/5 (Rank #921) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,759 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 10Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 20°C69°F (feels 20°C68°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 76% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 57 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $346 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Guatemala |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 20°C 69°F + 😊 Comfy (76%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 GTQ in USD | USD 1.28 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | GTQ 1,000 = USD 128 |
💸 Tipping | No |
☕️ Best coffee place | Te Quiero Coffe & Tea |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 11,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,147 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 69% 👱♀️ 31% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,759 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $922 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,929 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $551 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,572 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,259 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $325 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $74 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $41 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $118 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Real | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild |
Humidity | nice 77% | nice 75% | nice 72% | nice 85% | nice 96% | nice 99% | nice 88% | nice 95% | nice 96% | nice 91% | nice 80% | nice 74% |
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Rain | rainy 276mm | rainy 170mm | rainy 304mm | rainy 526mm | rainy 1085mm | rainy 957mm | rainy 730mm | rainy 1044mm | rainy 884mm | rainy 778mm | rainy 366mm | rainy 247mm |
Cloud | cloudy 55% | pockets 48% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 85% | overcast 94% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 69% | pockets 48% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 333 people | 350 people | 371 people | 550 people | 480 people | 250 people | 333 people | 267 people | 450 people | 200 people | 200 people | 229 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 57😷🚕2h$1,698 / mo10Mbps×Was here for less than a week and got jumped at gunpoint at 2pm, broad daylight in front of police and traffic. No one did anything, gangs seem the run the place. I've travelled to dozens of places and have lived in Mexico for >6mo, Guatemala is a whole different caliber of dangerous. Maybe I was just unlucky?
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 57😷🚕2h$1,469 / mo11Mbps×San Cris is actually dangerous and getting more dangerous, so know that if you go there. Of course, nomads in their bubbles will rarely see it but do a simple google search of news related, there's been a huge uptick in violence over the past few years. I experienced it while living there. Personally really wouldn't recommend to people unless you like the idea of being in a city that is going to eventually become a warzone
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 21✈️22min$1,601 / mo29Mbps×There is absolutely no reason to stay in Belize City. You're just going to get ripped off by taxis and restaurants (always do the math on your bill). You come to Belize to go to the islands or ruins, not Belize City.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 25✈️35min$2,409 / mo13Mbps×I love San Pedro for the diving, fishing and street food. Great internet and have worked here remotely several times in the last year. Some of the best diving in all of the Caribbean at offshore Atolls, with incredible bio-diversity, and world class fishing. I prefer minimalist island vibe without Gucci stores, am here for the wildlife, and love driving to dinner on the beach in a lifted golf cart.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 25✈️39min$4,504 / mo13Mbps×Roatan is a beautiful island and has become a worthwhile spot for digital nomads. I've been impressed with the high band internet speeds and over all reliability of all services! If you want to scuba dive, this is one of the best places on the planet to do that as well
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 25✈️42min$3,008 / mo12Mbps×Lived in Antigua for over a year and I absolutely loved it! It´s called the city of eternal spring because the weather is like a perfect spring day all year round. There are two seasons, rainy and non-rainy but in rainy season (May-Oct) it only rains for 3-4 hours in the afternoon then stops. It makes everything lush and green which is another reason they call it the city of perpetual roses and eternal spring. It´s a small city so very easily to walk and see everything. If you escape the cente
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 68😷✈️3h$1,442 / mo48Mbps×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -6° 21° -2° 29°AQI 33✈️10h$5,623 / mo32Mbps×Lived in Antigua for over a year and I absolutely loved it! It´s called the city of eternal spring because the weather is like a perfect spring day all year round. There are two seasons, rainy and non-rainy but in rainy season (May-Oct) it only rains for 3-4 hours in the afternoon then stops. It makes everything lush and green which is another reason they call it the city of perpetual roses and eternal spring. It´s a small city so very easily to walk and see everything. If you escape the cente
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 57😷🚕2h$1,698 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×Loved this city! It is not big although has great nightlife, coworkings, amazing streetart and is quite cheap. Although, when I visited in December 2021 they had problems with garbage removal.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 53😷✈️52min$1,987 / mo🌇 Also went here37 people×I wrote the last review and want to give an update. I’ve been in Puerto for about 3 months now, and I feel like that’s more than enough for me. I standby everything I wrote in the previous review with a few additions: - This town is incredibly small and word travels fast. You will see the same people when grocery shopping, when you stop at an Oxxo for petrol, and when you go to the late night bars. Lots of unnecessary immature drama/in-fighting. I try to stay away from these people. I would
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 63😷✈️52min$2,208 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×Seaweed - Summer is seaweed season and it stinks which ruins the awesome beaches. Town center is very hip and trendy now and prices are going up. My tip, winter is best, the weather in summer is scorching. Oh, and find a place with AC, you'll need it
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 75😷✈️1h$1,949 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×The stats are stats are super misleading and the reviews here as well. Locals are staring to recent digital nomads for the rise of housing prices and for it not paying taxes. It is really unfortunate, but I am let down by this city and the people. The only reason this city is popular is because all the single male wanting to go to parties and passport bros, if you are a female digital nomad you won’t feel any of this because most people that go there are male and are the ones causing the probl
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 68😷✈️3h$1,442 / mo🌇 Also went here33 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42°AQI 34✈️12h$6,033 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open✈️12h$5,053 / mo🌇 Also went here28 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels -1° 30° 2° 35°AQI 58😷✈️12h$5,610 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°AQI 21✈️12h$3,768 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -5° 23° -2° 29°AQI 74😷✈️13h$3,909 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 26° 79° 30° 86°🥵AQI 73😷✈️22h$1,422 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×