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| ⭐️ Total score | 1 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 9°C 47°F + 😊 Comfy (41%) = feels 9°C 48°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 168 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 139 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 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 | HongNi KaFeiGuan |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Le Dao KaFei |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air China |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Handan Dan TCM Orthopaedic Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,579 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $872 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,694 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $484 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $945 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $391 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $44 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $199 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ 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 |
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4° cold |
52
11° cool |
59
15° cool |
70
21° mild |
82
28° warm |
97
36° hot |
99
37° hot |
90
32° hot |
75
24° warm |
64
18° cool |
55
13° cool |
45
7° cold |
| Real |
41
5°
very cold |
52
11°
cool |
59
15°
cool |
68
20°
mild |
82
28°
very warm |
91
33°
hot |
86
30°
very warm |
82
28°
very warm |
75
24°
warm |
63
17°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
46
8°
cold |
| Humidity |
nice 36% |
nice 38% |
nice 64% |
nice 45% |
nice 39% |
nice 47% |
sweaty 77% |
sweaty 78% |
nice 78% |
nice 64% |
nice 51% |
nice 41% |
| Rain |
dry 2mm |
dry 38mm |
dry 14mm |
dry 16mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 44mm |
rainy 331mm |
rainy 110mm |
rainy 272mm |
rainy 86mm |
dry 24mm |
dry 6mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 25% |
pockets 32% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 72% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 66% |
cloudy 64% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 12% |
| Air quality |
bad 206 US AQI |
bad 188 US AQI |
bad 146 US AQI |
bad 157 US AQI |
bad 141 US AQI |
bad 146 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
bad 148 US AQI |
bad 167 US AQI |
bad 178 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 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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