⭐️ Total score |
2.3/5 (Rank #636)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,127 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg)
|
😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Too cold: 13°C56°F (feels 13°C55°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
💦 Damp: 88%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 147 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 99 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Great
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
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🤝 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 |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Good |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Okay |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
📡 Internet speed (avg) |
4 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Hefei is fast averaging 32 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~4 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 13°C 56°F + 💦 Damp (88%) = feels 13°C 55°F
|
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 147 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 99 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 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 | 1,700,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 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 | $1,127 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $756 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,817 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $519 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $596 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,055 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $355 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $35 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $131 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $7,607 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
45
7° cold |
55
13° cool |
54
12° cool |
66
19° mild |
79
26° warm |
86
30° warm |
88
31° hot |
84
29° warm |
84
29° warm |
70
21° mild |
63
17° cool |
54
12° cool |
Real |
46
8°
cold |
55
13°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
64
18°
cool |
78
26°
warm |
86
30°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
68
20°
mild |
61
16°
cool |
53
12°
cool |
Humidity |
nice 30% |
nice 35% |
nice 40% |
nice 36% |
nice 39% |
nice 42% |
nice 47% |
nice 46% |
nice 41% |
nice 38% |
nice 31% |
too dry 23% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain |
dry 25mm |
dry 39mm |
rainy 82mm |
rainy 57mm |
rainy 130mm |
rainy 135mm |
rainy 193mm |
rainy 171mm |
dry 48mm |
rainy 54mm |
dry 40mm |
dry 9mm |
Cloud |
pockets 36% |
pockets 38% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 58% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 54% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 31% |
pockets 21% |
Air quality |
bad 160 US AQI |
bad 157 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 127 US AQI |
bad 148 US AQI |
Sun |
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