⭐️ Total score | 2.23/5 (Rank #1200) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍80% liked it 👎20% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $5,752 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 25Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 6°C44°F (feels 5°C41°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 88% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 34 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 37 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | High: $2,225 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Spain |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 25 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 6°C 44°F + 💦 Damp (88%) = feels 5°C 41°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 37.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 109 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Nespresso Boutique |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 190,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $26,695 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 18% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Casa Mundo |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Iberia |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,752 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,260 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,061 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,446 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,568 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,856 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $786 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $73 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $94 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $465 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $40 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $4 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 5211° cool | 5714° cool | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 5412° cool |
Real | 5211° cool | 5815° cool | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 5513° cool |
Humidity | damp 85% | damp 79% | damp 80% | damp 73% | damp 80% | nice 85% | nice 85% | nice 82% | nice 84% | nice 80% | damp 85% | damp 80% |
Rain | rainy 191mm | rainy 124mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 120mm | dry 49mm | dry 33mm | rainy 100mm | rainy 83mm | rainy 302mm | rainy 278mm |
Cloud | cloudy 89% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 81% |
Air quality | clean 36 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 333 people | 267 people | 333 people | 300 people | 467 people | 400 people | 350 people | 400 people | 367 people | 400 people | 400 people |
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Honestly, was a bit dissapointed about the number of things that you cannot do there or do in the small old part of it. Seems quite juvenile + lots of students and it is the main factory of AIRBUS planes.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 2° 36° 5° 40°AQI 45✈️22min$3,265 / mo24Mbps×Great place to set up your business/residency as the tax is 10x lower than in Spain. Apart from that, Andorra is a ski/mountain town. There are also some great spas & thermal baths. In the past years, a lot of rich DNs moved there from Spain to establish residence and take advantage of the tax breaks. It's a bit on the expensive side, I'd recommend it if you want to escape Barcelona for a few days. In COVID times, there were almost no cases or restrictions.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels -3° 27° 0° 31°AQI 24✈️24min$6,263 / mo158Mbps×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 24✈️28min$4,411 / mo21Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️32min$4,857 / mo21Mbps×I live in Nantes and i'll say that it's mostly lgbt friendly in the city center even though it's really hard to navigate public spaces at times when you're a Trans person!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 50✈️35min$3,592 / mo24Mbps×I went to Valencia for a week and I will never go there again. As a black person, the racism there could be felt in my bones. On top of this, it was extremely boring. I went in November, so maybe this is why it was boring. However, the architecture of the city is old and did not inspire me. First place I visited where I was ready to leave after 3 days.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 68✈️36min$4,154 / mo21Mbps×Great city, perfect flagship of South of France. 30 min away there is the sea!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 12✈️37min$3,407 / mo24Mbps×Great small city on the beach! A few weeks in late summer were lovely, not too hot or rainy. Great food and drink, super cheap, with a beautiful old city and a roman lighthouse! Connectivity was good and people were friendly
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 8° 46° 10° 51°AQI 26✈️42min$2,953 / mo21Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️32min$4,857 / mo21Mbps×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 24✈️28min$4,411 / mo21Mbps×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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️1h$3,444 / mo31Mbps×Málaga is great. I don't agree on the comment that says it is not used to digital nomads, the person hasn't made a proper research. There are a lot of hostels, amazing night life, people are very cool and respectful, young people know English, and it has lots of COWORKING areas, even in banks. But not all of this is only in the center of the city, you need to discover also Costa del Sol, with places like Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Marbella, where is full of digital nomads that come the area b
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 26✈️1h$3,568 / mo21Mbps×This guide is UTTERLY WRONG. $3.300 per month!? You can rent a room as cheap as 200€ (erasmus rooms), 1beer costs usually under 2€ and has a free 'Tapa' - normally when I go out, with 5€ I've eaten and drank enough. Coworkings cost somewhere from 70-120€ depending if part time or full time. Then you can go almost anywhere around walking, and by bus to the mountains. Compared to Berlin, the Internet is much faster and cheaper. Simyo has 20€ prepaid cards that give you 60GB data x month.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 8° 46° 8° 46°AQI 24✈️56min$3,548 / mo19Mbps×It´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 42✈️2h$5,142 / mo13Mbps×I absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️3h$3,927 / mo34Mbps×I really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 139😷✈️13h$1,373 / mo29Mbps×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 24✈️28min$4,411 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️32min$4,857 / mo🌇 Also went here64 people×Porto was like a scaled down Lisbon (I swear they are trying to copy it down to the cable car). Lots to do but manageable walking wise. I walked everywhere and always found stuff to do. Bars and clubs are focused in one main area so everything is just easier. The architecture is wonderful and the people are nice. I'd like to see the city in summer as it's just on the wrong side of comfortable and it rained quite a bit (I was there in December). Dog poo is seemingly an issue generally in Portugal
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 26✈️48min$3,021 / mo🌇 Also went here33 people×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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 2° 36° 4° 40°AQI 50✈️56min$5,676 / mo🌇 Also went here49 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️1h$3,444 / mo🌇 Also went here56 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 34✈️1h$5,149 / mo🌇 Also went here54 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 41°AQI 24✈️2h$6,161 / mo🌇 Also went here44 people×It´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌦 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 42✈️2h$5,142 / mo🌇 Also went here32 people×I visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels -3° 27° -1° 31°AQI 29✈️2h$3,046 / mo🌇 Also went here35 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels -1° 30° 1° 35°AQI 26✈️2h$3,747 / mo🌇 Also went here49 people×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 2° 36° 3° 38°AQI 109😷✈️2h$2,324 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×Just came back from my second proper trip to Copenhagen. Now, I've been there in February and August, which is a huge contrast in this city. Winter: Copenhagen is great for cafes, working in them and experiencing the "hygge" (coziness) lifestyle. Why? Because the weather is so cold, windy and partly rainy that you just don't want to spend time outside. If you have someone to cuddle with, I highly recommend going there in Winter. Summer: Just amazing. If the weather is good you have several
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️2h$5,854 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 46✈️8h$6,186 / mo🌇 Also went here45 people×Bangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 28° 82°AQI 85😷✈️13h$2,209 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people×