⭐️ Total score | 1.86/5 (Rank #1294) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $5,354 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 10Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 28°C82°F (feels 32°C90°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 81% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 20 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Okay |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $560 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Okay |
😄 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* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Dominican Republic |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (81%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 20 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 DOP in USD | USD 1.82 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | DOP 10,000 = USD 182 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Delices Francais |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Masa Business Disctrict |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👎3% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 2,730,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 52,320 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 44,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $6,722 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | KLM |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital IMG en Punta Cana |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,354 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,456 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,432 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,266 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $6,485 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,962 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,039 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $304 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $97 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $161 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $20 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Feels | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9334° hot | 9032° hot |
Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 81% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 80% |
Rain | dry 45mm | rainy 69mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 171mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 153mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 139mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 112mm |
Cloud | pockets 41% | pockets 27% | pockets 29% | pockets 32% | pockets 32% | cloudy 58% | pockets 43% | pockets 45% | pockets 39% | pockets 41% | pockets 31% | pockets 29% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 273 people | 229 people | 400 people | 257 people | 350 people | 300 people | 300 people | 429 people | 283 people | 320 people | 433 people | 444 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 27✈️10h$4,051 / mo🌇 Also went here44 people×It´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 42° 108° 33° 92°🥵AQI 76😷✈️22h$2,100 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×