⭐️ Total score | 2.81/5 (Rank #1034) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,009 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 33Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 17°C63°F (feels 17°C63°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 73% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 10 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 41 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $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) | 🌧 17°C 63°F + 💦 Damp (73%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 10 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 41 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Free |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 106 |
💸 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 |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ 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 | $4,009 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,774 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $6,839 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,954 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,594 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $396 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,812 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $85 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 146 listings) | $1,880 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $62 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $17 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $8 |
☕️ 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
❌ 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 | 267 people | 267 people | 250 people | 300 people | 350 people | 400 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 24✈️52min$2,235 / mo24Mbps×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 74✈️1h$2,767 / mo23Mbps×For a European capital, there's not much to do. It's extremely overpriced for what it offers. Did not find the locals nearly as friendly as sources say. Food is very meh. Grocery stores are disorganized and everything close to expiry. You will have to beg and compete to find a dump of an apartment for under $2,000 euro/month. Maybe quality of life is better in the suburbs, but the city centre and surrounding area is not an attractive place to live. Overall, just avoid. For a similar price, you
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 29✈️2h$2,290 / mo🌇 Also went here39 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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