⭐️ Total score | 2.05/5 (Rank #1261) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,907 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 33Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 5°C41°F (feels 3°C37°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 85% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 41 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,069 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | France |
⏱ Average trip length | 16 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 33 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 5°C 41°F + 💦 Damp (85%) = feels 3°C 37°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 41 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 109 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Couleur Café |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 110,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $36,826 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 93% 👱♀️ 7% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Hôpitaux de Rouen |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,907 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,221 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $7,511 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $2,146 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,061 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,579 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,694 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $97 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $52 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $332 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $28 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $4 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 394° cold | 489° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5513° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 6116° cool | 5211° cool | 457° cold |
Real | 436° very cold | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5211° cool | 5714° cool | 7021° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 6116° cool | 5211° cool | 489° cold |
Humidity | damp 86% | damp 82% | damp 76% | nice 68% | damp 74% | nice 80% | nice 78% | nice 77% | nice 73% | damp 79% | damp 83% | damp 85% |
Rain | rainy 115mm | dry 41mm | dry 41mm | dry 30mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 86mm | dry 35mm | dry 39mm | rainy 104mm | dry 35mm | rainy 79mm |
Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 57% | pockets 39% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 84% |
Air quality | okay 54 US AQI | okay 69 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | clean 50 US AQI | clean 50 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 240 people | 200 people | 300 people | 229 people | 200 people | 250 people | 400 people | 240 people | 333 people | 360 people | 400 people | 250 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 26✈️2h$3,021 / mo🌇 Also went here45 people×I'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️2h$3,927 / mo🌇 Also went here43 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
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