⭐️ Total score |
2.32/5 (Rank #1162)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,875 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 3Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Too cold: 14°C57°F (feels 14°C57°F)
|
💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 39%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy : 185 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 82 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Great
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
📡 Internet speed (avg) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Zhucheng is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 14°C 57°F + 😊 Comfy (39%) = feels 14°C 57°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 185 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 82 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 1.41 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 141 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,875 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,432 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,679 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,051 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,054 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,710 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $790 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $56 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $107 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ 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 |
34
1° cold |
43
6° cold |
57
14° cool |
63
17° cool |
75
24° warm |
88
31° hot |
95
35° hot |
95
35° hot |
77
25° warm |
64
18° cool |
57
14° cool |
45
7° cold |
Real |
37
3°
very cold |
46
8°
cold |
57
14°
cool |
63
17°
cool |
75
24°
warm |
82
28°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
77
25°
warm |
64
18°
cool |
57
14°
cool |
46
8°
cold |
Humidity |
nice 57% |
nice 55% |
nice 58% |
nice 49% |
nice 54% |
sweaty 75% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 82% |
nice 84% |
nice 65% |
nice 68% |
nice 52% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 6mm |
dry 36mm |
dry 26mm |
rainy 58mm |
dry 36mm |
rainy 63mm |
rainy 140mm |
rainy 121mm |
rainy 117mm |
dry 37mm |
dry 31mm |
dry 2mm |
Cloud |
pockets 29% |
pockets 38% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 62% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 79% |
cloudy 84% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 70% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 25% |
Air quality |
bad 164 US AQI |
bad 169 US AQI |
bad 117 US AQI |
okay 100 US AQI |
okay 94 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
okay 61 US AQI |
okay 80 US AQI |
bad 118 US AQI |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 143 US AQI |
Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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