⭐️ Total score |
2.44/5 (Rank #1026)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,922 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Freezing
: -10°C15°F (feels -13°C9°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
💦 Damp: 83%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
☠️ Very unhealthy: 208 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 109 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Great
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
😤 People density |
🧘♀️ Low density: 9k ppl/km² (11x11m)
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🚶 Walkability |
Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Good |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
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👩 Female friendly |
Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌤 -10°C 15°F + 💦 Damp (83%) = feels -13°C 9°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 208 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 109.75 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Harbin Walker Coffee Hotel |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | USABUCKS Coffee |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Holiday Inn-Harbin City Centre |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 11,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Roomorama |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Flying Dragon Aviation |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
🏥 Best hospital | Jewish Private Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,922 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,194 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,612 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $746 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,030 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,149 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $529 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $48 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $188 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 |
-8
-22° freezing |
10
-12° freezing |
36
2° cold |
54
12° cool |
70
21° mild |
77
25° warm |
95
35° hot |
73
23° mild |
68
20° mild |
54
12° cool |
23
-5° freezing |
5
-15° freezing |
Real |
1
-17°
freezing |
18
-8°
freezing |
39
4°
very cold |
56
14°
cool |
68
20°
mild |
77
25°
warm |
84
29°
very warm |
73
23°
mild |
66
19°
mild |
54
12°
cool |
28
-2°
freezing |
12
-11°
freezing |
Humidity |
nice 56% |
nice 64% |
nice 66% |
nice 31% |
nice 47% |
nice 65% |
sweaty 81% |
nice 81% |
nice 76% |
nice 54% |
damp 84% |
nice 70% |
Rain |
dry 10mm |
dry 13mm |
dry 29mm |
dry 14mm |
rainy 64mm |
rainy 102mm |
rainy 130mm |
rainy 140mm |
rainy 93mm |
dry 12mm |
rainy 56mm |
dry 7mm |
Cloud |
pockets 36% |
cloudy 64% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 50% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 76% |
cloudy 65% |
pockets 39% |
cloudy 69% |
pockets 35% |
Air quality |
bad 172 US AQI |
bad 160 US AQI |
bad 149 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 116 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 131 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
Sun |
safe 1 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
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safe 1 UVI |
safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 267 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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