⭐️ Total score | 2.63/5 (Rank #1203) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,663 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C83°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 85% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 20 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $258 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Vanuatu |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (85%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 20 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Digicel VU |
💸 1,000 XPF in USD | USD 8.85 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | XPF 10,000 = USD 89 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Blue Marlin |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Emily's Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
📸 Visitors per year | 109,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 2,089 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 44,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,097 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Singapore Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Singapore Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | VANUATU PRIVATE HOSPITAL |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,663 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,971 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,558 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,302 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $885 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $292 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,413 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $160 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 64 listings) | $2,287 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $75 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $9 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 10239° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot | 9535° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 8831° hot | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 9133° hot | 9535° hot | 10239° hot |
Real | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 88% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 83% | nice 74% | nice 77% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% |
Rain | rainy 383mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 254mm | rainy 126mm | rainy 136mm | dry 28mm | rainy 68mm | dry 31mm | dry 38mm | rainy 126mm | rainy 119mm | rainy 193mm |
Cloud | overcast 95% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 69% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
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