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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 226 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
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| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 2 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌥 10°C 51°F + 💦 Not humid (39%) + 💨 9km/h = feels like 9°C 48°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 72 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 177 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.41 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 USD 141 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Stabucks |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 730,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 13,990 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,700,000 people |
| 😤 People density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 3,700 ppl/km² 16x16m (256m²) space per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Shandong Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Qingdao Municipal Hospital |
| no-beachbeachairportnon-touristycoldcold nowslow internetcheap cost of livinglow crimemany womenfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,357 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $903 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,503 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $429 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $352 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $62 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,078 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $50 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (944 listings) | $1,773 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $58 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $3 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
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| Feels like | 373° very cold | 415° very cold | 5211° cool | 5915° cool | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 9334° hot | 9736° hot | 8630° very warm | 7021° mild | 6317° cool | 415° very cold |
| Real temperature | 415° very cold | 436° very cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7021° mild | 6217° cool | 457° cold |
| Humidity | comfy 50% | comfy 61% | comfy 60% | damp 71% | comfy 57% | comfy 78% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 75% | comfy 64% | comfy 58% | comfy 58% | comfy 66% |
| Rain | not rainy 7mm | not rainy 7mm | not rainy 13mm | not rainy 30mm | not rainy 15mm | not rainy 29mm | not rainy 42mm | not rainy 45mm | not rainy 6mm | not rainy 7mm | not rainy 13mm | not rainy 9mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 35% | cloudy 70% | pockets 33% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 65% | pockets 49% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 55% | pockets 45% | pockets 27% |
| Air quality | bad 122 AQI | bad 118 AQI | bad 95 AQI | bad 86 AQI | bad 85 AQI | clean 71 AQI | clean 75 AQI | clean 58 AQI | clean 70 AQI | bad 87 AQI | bad 104 AQI | bad 126 AQI |
| UV Index | safe 3 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
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✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBT friendly
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality usually
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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