⭐️ Total score | 2.15/5 (Rank #907) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,740 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 11Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 34°C94°F (feels 53°C127°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 86% |
👌 Safety | Very bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Okay |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $197 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Honduras |
🗓️ Average trip length | 16 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 34°C 94°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 53°C 127°F |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 100 HNL in USD | USD 4.03 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | HNL 10,000 = USD 403 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
☕️ Best coffee place | Rinkon Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 720,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,361 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital del Valle |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,740 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,069 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,252 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $643 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,889 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,505 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $627 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $88 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $49 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $117 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $5 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Dangerous
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7926° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8731° hot | 8731° hot | 8731° hot | 8530° very warm | 8731° hot | 8731° hot | 8630° very warm | 7725° warm | 8027° warm |
Humidity | nice 44% | nice 41% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 41% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 151mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 156mm | rainy 208mm | rainy 185mm | rainy 180mm | rainy 192mm | rainy 131mm | rainy 251mm | rainy 78mm |
Cloud | pockets 39% | pockets 25% | pockets 20% | pockets 38% | pockets 37% | pockets 47% | pockets 44% | pockets 44% | pockets 38% | pockets 32% | pockets 45% | pockets 30% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 240 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 130😷✈️15h$1,620 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 15✈️18h$3,958 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 50✈️23h$1,940 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 31° 87°🥵✈️24h$4,235 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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