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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 219 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👍 Quality of life | |
| 👶 Family friendly | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety | |
| 🏥 Healthcare | |
| 😄 Happiness | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Latin America | |
| 🚩 Country | Colombia | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 5 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌥 32°C 89°F + 💦 Humid (90%) + 💨 18km/h = feels like 48°C 118°F | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 47 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 102 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day | |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Tigo | |
| 💸 10,000 COP in USD | USD 2.52 | |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | COP 1,000,000 USD 252 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Lulo | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 380,000 people | |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Falabella | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Copa Airlines | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Avianca | |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Instituto del Corazón de Santa Marta | |
💥 We recommend you to take precautions when traveling to Santa Marta as it may not always be safe for travelers, more info | ||
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| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,107 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $665 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,091 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $312 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $189 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $66 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $441 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $21 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (701 listings) | $833 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $27 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $6 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
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| Feels like | 10239° hot | 10641° scorching | 10943° scorching | 11747° scorching | 12049° scorching | 11848° scorching | 11144° scorching | 11345° scorching | 12049° scorching | 11144° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10943° scorching |
| Real temperature | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot |
| Humidity | sweaty 85% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 93% | sweaty 92% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 88% |
| Rain | not rainy 4mm | not rainy 3mm | not rainy 5mm | not rainy 9mm | not rainy 34mm | not rainy 38mm | not rainy 20mm | not rainy 42mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 85mm | not rainy 40mm | not rainy 15mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 19% | pockets 24% | pockets 35% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 69% | pockets 47% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 55% | pockets 47% |
| Air quality | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI | bad 102* AQI |
| UV Index | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI |
| Nomad List members there | 2 people | 2 people | 3 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ LGBT friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Bad air quality usually
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
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