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| 🌍 Region | Africa |
| 🚩 Country | Madagascar |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 12 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 20 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 22°C 72°F + 😊 Comfy (97%) = feels 22°C 72°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 33 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 115V230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Airtel |
| 💸 10,000 MGA in USD | USD 2.67 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MGA 1,000,000 = USD 267 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Chill Out Cafe Ambondrona |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Cafe Tana |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Widea |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 255,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 4,887 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $451 / year |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | KLM |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | KLM |
| 🏥 Best hospital | INSTITUT MEDICAL DE MADAGASCAR |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,185 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $716 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,337 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $382 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $243 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $120 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $743 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $35 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (40 listings) | $1,261 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $41 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
I’ve been toying with the thought of spending a month or three in Madagascar next year, but the capital doesn’t seem excessively appealing. Any recommendations for nice places to stay? (Ideally reasonably large – large enough to be represented on AirBnB, at least --, but pleasant.)
(If anyone else is planning to head that way sometime after February 2017, get in touch too! 
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I’m just back from there but only spent two weeks. Antsirabe was the closest thing to a functional town that we’ve been to, in addition to Tana, which didn’t seem too bad actually except for being unsafe at night.
An amazing hotel we stayed at that I wholeheartedly recommend is Citizen (in Tana).
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Humidity | nice 91% | nice 88% | nice 90% | nice 83% | nice 77% | nice 78% | nice 68% | nice 64% | nice 66% | nice 67% | nice 76% | nice 81% |
| Rain | rainy 154mm | rainy 116mm | rainy 153mm | rainy 52mm | dry 13mm | dry 39mm | dry 2mm | dry 5mm | dry 9mm | dry 31mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 118mm |
| Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 77% | pockets 32% | pockets 25% | pockets 40% | pockets 32% | pockets 27% | pockets 40% | pockets 46% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 82% |
| Sun | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
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