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| ⭐️ Overall score | 246 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Middle East |
| 🚩 Country | Egypt |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 9 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 34°C 94°F + 😊 Comfy (56%) = feels 41°C 106°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 82 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Etisalat |
| 💸 100 EGP in USD | USD 6.37 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EGP 1,000 = USD 64 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | The District |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | The Greek Campus |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 12% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 3,067,100 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 58,781 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,500,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $2,823 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 😤 crowded: 7x7m (49m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | AirEgypt |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | AirEgypt |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $851 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $531 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $906 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $259 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $192 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $54 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $569 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $27 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (809 listings) | $879 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $29 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Great hospitals
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Real | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8027° warm | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | nice 49% | nice 57% | nice 54% | nice 48% | nice 38% | nice 50% | nice 53% | nice 57% | nice 63% | nice 64% | nice 60% | nice 62% |
| Rain | dry 2mm | dry 7mm | dry 4mm | dry 4mm | dry 0mm | rainy 151mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 1mm | dry 34mm | dry 1mm | dry 4mm |
| Cloud | pockets 11% | pockets 16% | pockets 11% | pockets 12% | clear 6% | clear 2% | clear 0% | clear 0% | clear 0% | clear 8% | pockets 17% | pockets 14% |
| Air quality | clean 31 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 400 people | 280 people | 429 people | 233 people | 267 people | 250 people | 267 people | 222 people | 233 people | 200 people | 457 people | 533 people |
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I lived in Alexandria from 2001 to 2003. The air pollution doesn't stagnate because it's blown inland, unlike Cairo, and the quality of life is better. I have happy memories. I went back for a visit in 2008 and it hadn't really changed, but since then Egypt has endured tumultuous times.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 57✈️14min$2,728 / mo5MbpsDahab is amazing! Thanks to being one of the few warm and open places during covid, there's a great professional expat crowd here right now. I love it and plan to extend my stay by a couple months.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 43° 109° 35° 95°🥵AQI 67✈️29min$1,029 / mo9MbpsI spent 2 weeks in El Gouna. El Gouna has a coworking space G*space for about 5 euros / month and working from there was amazing. Internet is very reliable. El Gouna is not like the rest of Egypt. El Gouna is very safe. In terms of accommodation, short term airbnb might be quite pricey (I paid around 650 euros for 2 weeks). Long term rent through a rental agency can come down to around 500 euros / month for an apt with a pool access. I definitely recommend El Gouna for digital nomads. Its a plac
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 35° 95°🥵AQI 40✈️30min$3,551 / mo7MbpsOne of my favourite places to visit. Best vegetarian food in the world.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 39° 102° 31° 87°🥵AQI 68✈️33min$5,216 / mo14MbpsHaifa is amazing but DO NOT COME HERE. I Repeat DO NOT COME HERE THIS PLACE SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 73✈️38min$4,169 / mo15MbpsMuch more livable that I expected. Downtown is a bit dusty and unclean, but suburbs are great, with lots of restaurants and malls. Furthermore Jordan is smaller than it seems, there is basically one road crossing the country from North to South and you can always visit Petra or the beaches of Aqaba in a daytrip. Just avoid Ramadan as it can be very annoying for foreigners with all the restrictions.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 33° 91° 30° 86°🥵AQI 30✈️40min$1,371 / mo8MbpsDahab is amazing! Thanks to being one of the few warm and open places during covid, there's a great professional expat crowd here right now. I love it and plan to extend my stay by a couple months.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 43° 109° 35° 95°🥵AQI 67✈️29min$1,029 / mo9MbpsHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 50✈️5h$4,289 / mo22MbpsI spent one year in Istanbul and it's absolutely amazing. The city is really safe, I went back home really late during the night, walking, without any problem. Parties are really fun and there are all kinds of spots to have fun (bars, nightclubs, restaurants...). The city has a lot of cafés to work at and most of them have free and reliable wifi. Definitely recommend!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°AQI 21✈️2h$1,089 / mo12MbpsMuch more livable that I expected. Downtown is a bit dusty and unclean, but suburbs are great, with lots of restaurants and malls. Furthermore Jordan is smaller than it seems, there is basically one road crossing the country from North to South and you can always visit Petra or the beaches of Aqaba in a daytrip. Just avoid Ramadan as it can be very annoying for foreigners with all the restrictions.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 33° 91° 30° 86°🥵AQI 30✈️40min$1,371 / mo8MbpsI lived in Alexandria from 2001 to 2003. The air pollution doesn't stagnate because it's blown inland, unlike Cairo, and the quality of life is better. I have happy memories. I went back for a visit in 2008 and it hadn't really changed, but since then Egypt has endured tumultuous times.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 57✈️14min$2,728 / mo5MbpsDidn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 80°🥵AQI 70✈️3h$4,120 / mo15MbpsChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82°🥵AQI 30✈️9h$993 / mo27MbpsI spent 2 weeks in El Gouna. El Gouna has a coworking space G*space for about 5 euros / month and working from there was amazing. Internet is very reliable. El Gouna is not like the rest of Egypt. El Gouna is very safe. In terms of accommodation, short term airbnb might be quite pricey (I paid around 650 euros for 2 weeks). Long term rent through a rental agency can come down to around 500 euros / month for an apt with a pool access. I definitely recommend El Gouna for digital nomads. Its a plac
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 35° 95°🥵AQI 40✈️30min$3,551 / mo7MbpsI'm the one who left the review complaining about how people don't speak English 2-3 months ago. I think it's only fair to leave another review as I projected a pretty negative overall picture of the place. I came back a second time and boy, I'm glad I did. The language barrier didn't disappear, but I came with a different mindset and made efforts to learn some basic Spanish. Being able to explain how you want your coffee even makes a huge difference. Mexican people are kind and warm-hearted.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 61✈️16h$1,415 / mo21MbpsI spent one year in Istanbul and it's absolutely amazing. The city is really safe, I went back home really late during the night, walking, without any problem. Parties are really fun and there are all kinds of spots to have fun (bars, nightclubs, restaurants...). The city has a lot of cafés to work at and most of them have free and reliable wifi. Definitely recommend!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°AQI 21✈️2h$1,089 / mo🌇 Also went here66 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 31° 87°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$4,038 / mo🌇 Also went here32 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 46✈️4h$3,107 / mo🌇 Also went here45 peopleEven if the city is kind of on the decline, it still is awesome. Perfect weather all year, amazing food, vibrant local & expat community.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 20✈️4h$3,193 / mo🌇 Also went here53 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 40✈️4h$3,861 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 83😷✈️4h$4,973 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 50✈️5h$4,289 / mo🌇 Also went here59 peoplePros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 21✈️5h$2,195 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82°🥵AQI 30✈️9h$993 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peopleDon'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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 74✈️10h$1,357 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 64✈️11h$1,217 / mo🌇 Also went here42 peopleOnly 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 42✈️11h$999 / mo🌇 Also went here34 peopleThey 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 50✈️11h$2,838 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 37° 99° 31° 87°🥵AQI 22✈️13h$4,177 / mo🌇 Also went here32 people
