⭐️ Total score | 2.13/5 (Rank #1007) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,487 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 16°C60°F (feels 17°C63°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 52% |
💨 Air quality (now) | ☠️ Very unhealthy: 347 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 100 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🤨 Busy: 12k ppl/km² (1 per 9x9m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Beijing is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 16°C 60°F + 😊 Comfy (52%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 347 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 101 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Sun Palace |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Taixiang |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
💻 Best coworking space | AND lab |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | theNode |
☕️ Best coffee place | Café Zarah |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Trends Lounge |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | The Bridge Café |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 4,156,700 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 79,663 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 22,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 9x9m (81m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 79% 👱♀️ 21% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Spring |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
🏥 Best hospital | Beijing United Family Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,487 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,814 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,793 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,084 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,356 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,174 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $854 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $64 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $104 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $232 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $26,448 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $4 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Feels crowded
❌ 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 | 0° freezing | 436° cold | 5211° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 8429° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 6317° cool | 5010° cold | 394° cold |
Real | 320° freezing | 426° very cold | 5211° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7625° warm | 6116° cool | 4910° cold | 394° very cold |
Humidity | too dry 14% | too dry 17% | too dry 27% | too dry 15% | too dry 16% | too dry 27% | nice 43% | nice 37% | nice 39% | too dry 25% | too dry 27% | too dry 13% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 1mm | dry 5mm | dry 9mm | dry 3mm | dry 14mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 164mm | rainy 109mm | rainy 58mm | dry 38mm | dry 18mm | dry 2mm |
Cloud | clear 9% | pockets 14% | pockets 32% | pockets 31% | pockets 32% | pockets 43% | cloudy 59% | pockets 45% | cloudy 53% | pockets 24% | pockets 15% | clear 8% |
Air quality | bad 146 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | bad 114 US AQI | bad 109 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | bad 135 US AQI | bad 135 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 500 people | 508 people | 582 people | 517 people | 614 people | 544 people | 585 people | 518 people | 491 people | 511 people | 600 people | 583 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 63😷✈️10h$3,728 / mo🌇 Also went here137 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°✈️13h$5,775 / mo🌇 Also went here122 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 42✈️13h$3,477 / mo🌇 Also went here124 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°✈️15h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here159 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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