⭐️ Total score | 2.3/5 (Rank #1177) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,618 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 7Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 93% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 1 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Low: $1,268 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Uruguay |
⏱ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (93%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 1 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 UYU in USD | USD 2.58 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UYU 10,000 = USD 258 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍11% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,300 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $15,221 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | American Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,618 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,543 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,643 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,327 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,334 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,567 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,032 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $62 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $117 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $310 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $14 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 5412° cool | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7222° mild |
Real | 7524° warm | 7424° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7222° mild |
Humidity | nice 73% | nice 76% | nice 73% | nice 73% | damp 71% | damp 75% | damp 75% | damp 79% | damp 82% | damp 71% | nice 70% | nice 71% |
Rain | rainy 71mm | rainy 152mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 100mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 119mm | rainy 88mm | dry 47mm | rainy 89mm | dry 48mm | rainy 71mm | dry 21mm |
Cloud | pockets 32% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 52% | pockets 36% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 69% | pockets 37% | pockets 42% | pockets 39% |
Sun | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI |
Remote workers | 400 people | 360 people | 280 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 600 people | 200 people | 200 people | 378 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 36✈️52min$1,585 / mo4Mbps×Florianopolis is absolutely beautiful. Amazing beaches and hiking. The seafood here is incredible. YOU NEED A CAR HERE. This place is hard to navigate without a vehicle. Public transportation and uber aren't great. I think this is an amazing place to go with someone else. I wouldn’t recommend it for a long term solo traveler. The reason for that is I found the people to be a bit cold. I approached a lot of people and the interactions always felt so strange. IMO not a great place to mingle w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 33✈️1h$2,453 / mo3Mbps×Very nice and underrated city. Many parks, and things to do. The best neighborhoods are Centro (near Shopping Estacao) and Batel (near Praca Japao). You can do everything on foot. Everything is cheap by European standards. The nightlife is very good, Latin America standard. Women are beautiful. Security is okay in these neighborhoods, but be aware. English speaking is only possible with young people or some adults. The weather is good and comfortable in the fall. One of my favorite cities in Bra
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°AQI 36✈️2h$1,372 / mo6Mbps×I've casually found this page, living in Montevideo for a twelve year now I want to write a little comment about some of the things I've read here. 1) the cost of living: yes, it's expensive. no, you don't need 4000 usd/month. Of course you can spend it if you want, but actually we're a family of four and our monthly balance is about 3000$. we don't own a car, we don't go out every evening, we don't live in punta carretas. of course, if you want to live in the most expensive neighborhood and wan
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 15🚕4h$2,993 / mo9Mbps×Pros - extremely cheap (excl. housing), great transportation system (both subway and busses), great pastry shops Cons - expensive airbnbs, rude people who can be fairly racist towards blacks (worldcup was a tough time given how openly people were cursing about black people in bars and home get togethers I went to) and other south americans (weird superiority complex), a tad depressing given the current economic crises (almost everyone is going through a rough time so it is difficult to enjoy yo
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°🥵AQI 15✈️25min$1,758 / mo26Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌤 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 42✈️7h$2,686 / mo14Mbps×Unfortunately this was supposed to be the best economy in LATAM but what I found instead was a very over priced for what you get experience. People are rude in general, until you get to meet them personally, and the country is way behind in infrastructure, innovation and culture that most countries around it. Not worth your time and money at all.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 64°AQI 50✈️4h$1,167 / mo5Mbps×I've casually found this page, living in Montevideo for a twelve year now I want to write a little comment about some of the things I've read here. 1) the cost of living: yes, it's expensive. no, you don't need 4000 usd/month. Of course you can spend it if you want, but actually we're a family of four and our monthly balance is about 3000$. we don't own a car, we don't go out every evening, we don't live in punta carretas. of course, if you want to live in the most expensive neighborhood and wan
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 15🚕4h$2,993 / mo🌇 Also went here36 people×Pros - extremely cheap (excl. housing), great transportation system (both subway and busses), great pastry shops Cons - expensive airbnbs, rude people who can be fairly racist towards blacks (worldcup was a tough time given how openly people were cursing about black people in bars and home get togethers I went to) and other south americans (weird superiority complex), a tad depressing given the current economic crises (almost everyone is going through a rough time so it is difficult to enjoy yo
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 33✈️15h$5,834 / mo🌇 Also went here18 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 61✈️15h$7,689 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 34✈️15h$6,310 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 23✈️16h$4,479 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 30✈️16h$4,054 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×