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| ⭐️ Overall score | 204 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Malaysia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 19 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (82%) = feels 38°C 100°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 53 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 33 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Hotlink |
| 💸 10 MYR in USD | USD 2.42 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MYR 1,000 = USD 242 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Smiling Buffalo Cafe |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Jetpack Langkawi |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 65,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $9,508 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Chenang Clinic |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,299 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $826 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,691 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $483 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $242 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $166 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $521 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $24 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (318 listings) | $1,336 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $44 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Real | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | nice 62% | nice 61% | nice 62% | nice 65% | nice 66% | nice 66% | nice 64% | nice 65% | nice 66% | nice 67% | nice 67% | nice 63% |
| Rain | dry 45mm | dry 24mm | dry 49mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 158mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 86mm | rainy 109mm | rainy 339mm | rainy 141mm | dry 27mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 86% | pockets 45% | pockets 44% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 81% | pockets 39% |
| Air quality | clean 29 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 280 people | 333 people | 286 people | 320 people | 267 people | 333 people | 233 people | 800 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 320 people |
Based on Langkawi's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
The noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 57🚕4h$1,088 / mo21MbpsIt's basically a party island -- getting work done will require discipline. One who can accomplish that will be rewarded with a paradisiac cheerful enviroment where everyone wants to be happy and enjoy life. In long term, be careful with your emotional life, as new flows of people everyday going in and out might unbalance your way to see the world.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 57✈️15min$1,105 / mo21MbpsAo Nang is a Good Hub for jumping into other beaches and islands. A few services are available for everyday use ( restaurants, bars, laundry, markets, shops, etc ). Still, I consider it quite underdevelop. Internet connectivity was quite intermittent on the two places I stayed. Also, not many places to get work done! I always worked from my villa room. Highly suggest staying by Nopparatthara beach rather than Ao Nang side. No many nomads in here aswell
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 57✈️17min$906 / mo21MbpsGreat place, I stayed at bug n boats.....epics.s go to gua tempurung
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 53✈️19min$1,178 / mo19MbpsLiving in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 57✈️19min$1,108 / mo28MbpsSamui is definitely improving, but still not up there with the top nomad hotspots. Pros: - Has an airport, so you can fly in straight from Bangkok and it only takes an hour - Has nice villas in Mae Nam you can rent with beautiful view over the ocean and Ko Pha Ngan in the distance - Grab delivery food works okay here, although options are quite limited compared to Bangkok - WiFi is good and fast around the island, no problems at all - Driving a bike/scooter here is quite do-able as traffic is n
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84°🥵AQI 97😷✈️28min$1,684 / mo18MbpsI have been staying on this island for about 2 years, and would like to remind everybody something : working remotely is illegal in Thailand, and can get you in serious troubles if you do any kind of work without a work permit. There has been in the past reported cases of arrests in so called "co-working spaces". I think it is only a fair warning to people who plan to come here and hang in co-working spaces. 2 years ago koh phangan did not have a good rating on nomad list, not much as changed si
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 97😷✈️30min$1,185 / mo21MbpsPutrajaya 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 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️33min$1,276 / mo19MbpsThe noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 57🚕4h$1,088 / mo21MbpsThey 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 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 30✈️58min$2,806 / mo86MbpsPutrajaya 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 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️33min$1,276 / mo19MbpsLiving in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 57✈️19min$1,108 / mo28MbpsDon'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 41° 106° 33° 91°🥵AQI 25✈️1h$1,444 / mo25MbpsBali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 83°🥵AQI 3✈️3h$1,342 / mo22MbpsShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 87😷✈️5h$2,137 / mo2MbpsI've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 53✈️18h$5,659 / mo68MbpsCheep bear and party place. But only have 3-4 beautiful places to visit. I stayed 5 days and thanks! There are more beautiful places in Asia than Hanoi. I don´t think I come back. Good food and cheap but nothing more..
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 54° 129° 36° 97°🥵AQI 55✈️2h$964 / mo14MbpsChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 42✈️2h$1,033 / mo19MbpsI 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 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 17✈️11h$1,010 / mo12MbpsThe noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 57🚕4h$1,088 / mo🌇 Also went here42 peopleLiving in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 57✈️19min$1,108 / mo🌇 Also went here28 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 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️33min$1,276 / mo🌇 Also went here54 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 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 30✈️58min$2,806 / mo🌇 Also went here47 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 41° 106° 33° 91°🥵AQI 25✈️1h$1,444 / mo🌇 Also went here45 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 45° 113° 32° 90°🥵AQI 61✈️1h$942 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 42✈️2h$1,033 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleHong Kong is a fabulous city - from big city living, to isolated beaches, outlying islands and hikes through mountainous terrain. The big downside is it's EXPENSIVE. You need to have a decent salary to live here - otherwise, it would be tough. Hong Kong island is the most expensive, but more affordable places are possible, the further you are willing to travel. It's quite a transient city, so probably pretty easy to make connections!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 35✈️3h$2,354 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 3✈️3h$1,777 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleBali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 83°🥵AQI 3✈️3h$1,342 / mo🌇 Also went here36 peopleSeoul is an amazing experience. Even though it's a massive city, it's thoroughly Korean rather than cosmopolitan and overflowing with authentic local culture. It's extremely clean, modern and futuristic with neon lights and flashing screens everywhere. The modern architecture in this city is impressive and beautiful. It wouldn't take much to convince yourself that you've travelled 100 years into the future. The food is amazing and you have to try Korean barbecue at least once if you visit this
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 74✈️6h$2,306 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 13✈️7h$3,498 / mo🌇 Also went here31 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 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 42✈️13h$4,824 / mo🌇 Also went here25 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 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 30✈️14h$3,138 / mo🌇 Also went here32 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 6✈️20h$4,805 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people
