⭐️ Total score | 2.95/5 (Rank #957) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,369 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 32°C90°F (feels 43°C109°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 78% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 75 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (15x15m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 90°F + 🥵 Sweaty (78%) = feels 43°C 109°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 75.25 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
💸 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 | 8,700,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 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 | $1,369 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $946 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,737 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $782 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $473 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $74 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $792 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 399 listings) | $991 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $32 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 10943° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 8831° hot | 7222° mild | 6619° mild |
Real | 6317° cool | 6921° mild | 7021° mild | 7424° warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8228° very warm | 7222° mild | 6619° mild |
Humidity | nice 68% | nice 72% | nice 72% | nice 70% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 76% | nice 70% | nice 70% | nice 67% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 34mm | dry 29mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 172mm | rainy 134mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 292mm | rainy 77mm | dry 25mm | dry 20mm | dry 40mm |
Cloud | pockets 30% | pockets 29% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 68% | overcast 91% | overcast 97% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 88% | pockets 45% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 53% |
Air quality | okay 99 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 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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