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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 249 reviews |
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| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| ✌️ Peace | |
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| 😄 Happiness | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Thailand |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 9 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌥 28°C 83°F + 💦 Humid (91%) + 💨 9km/h = feels like 34°C 93°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 54 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | AIS |
| 💸 100 THB in USD | USD 3.05 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 USD 305 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | The Big Buddha |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Big Buddha |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 11% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 2,500,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 47,912 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 63,000 people |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Bangkok Hospital Samui |
| places of worshiptemplesbeachstreet foodnightlifesurfingspadivingislandbackpackersairportwarm nowwarmhotfast internetlow crimehigh humiditymany womenfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,682 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,346 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,610 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $746 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $610 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $183 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $651 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $30 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (568 listings) | $2,578 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $85 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $2 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
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🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 42✈️19h$5,104 / mo🌇 Also went here69 people| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels like | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm |
| Real temperature | 7926° warm | 8027° warm | 8228° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm |
| Humidity | comfy 77% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 76% | comfy 78% |
| Rain | rainy 101mm | not rainy 19mm | not rainy 11mm | not rainy 31mm | rainy 116mm | rainy 169mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 88mm | rainy 98mm | rainy 141mm | rainy 80mm | not rainy 34mm |
| Cloud cover | cloudy 59% | pockets 26% | pockets 30% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 82% | overcast 91% | cloudy 77% | overcast 91% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 54% |
| Air quality | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI | clean 54** AQI |
| UV Index | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI |
| Nomad List members there | 5 people | 3 people | 3 people | 3 people | 2 people | 2 people | 3 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 3 people | 3 people |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Many nomads have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBT
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many nomads right now
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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