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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 252 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Region | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Finland |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 30 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 17°C 63°F + Humid (71%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 14 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 66 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Etu-Töölö |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Kumpula |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Sonera |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 113 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee House Asema-aukio |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 17% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 630,000 people |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 22x22m (484m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Verkkokauppa |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Oikotie |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Finnair |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Flybe Nordic |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Helsinki Private Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,454 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,289 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,464 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,561 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,144 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $248 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,611 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $75 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (119 listings) | $1,728 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $57 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $16 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,376 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,930 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $110,589 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Humid now
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6619° mild | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold | 30-1° freezing |
| Real | 28-2° freezing | 362° very cold | 362° very cold | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 6720° mild | 6619° mild | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 405° very cold | 373° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 64% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 54% | nice 59% | nice 60% | nice 61% | nice 68% | nice 69% | damp 71% | damp 71% | damp 72% |
| Rain | dry 32mm | dry 26mm | dry 36mm | dry 4mm | dry 41mm | dry 15mm | dry 38mm | dry 33mm | dry 41mm | rainy 77mm | dry 35mm | dry 48mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 89% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 74% | pockets 36% | cloudy 70% | pockets 47% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 86% | overcast 97% | overcast 93% |
| Air quality | clean 27 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 3 people | 4 people | 3 people | 5 people | 4 people | 3 people | 4 people | 4 people | 4 people | 2 people | 4 people | 3 people |
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