⭐️ Total score |
2.3/5 (Rank #653)
|
👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,696 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🙂 Good: 18Mbps (avg)
|
😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 30°C86°F)
|
💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 95%
|
💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 34 US AQI
|
👌 Safety |
Bad
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Great
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Very bad
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Okay |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$721 / mo
|
🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Good |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Okay |
🖥 Places to work from |
Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Good |
👩 Female friendly |
Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Great |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
🗓️ Average trip length | 21 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 18 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (95%) = feels 30°C 86°F
|
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 35 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V230V 60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 2.00 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 200 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Aroma Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 530,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azul |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Azul |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,696 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $764 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,512 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $432 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,715 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,007 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $279 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $80 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $33 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $196 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $7,478 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $27 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
82
28° warm |
79
26° warm |
82
28° warm |
75
24° warm |
70
21° mild |
66
19° mild |
66
19° mild |
68
20° mild |
66
19° mild |
72
22° mild |
75
24° warm |
75
24° warm |
Real |
82
28°
very warm |
79
26°
warm |
82
28°
very warm |
75
24°
warm |
70
21°
mild |
66
19°
mild |
66
19°
mild |
68
20°
mild |
66
19°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
74
24°
warm |
75
24°
warm |
Humidity |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 41% |
nice 39% |
nice 40% |
nice 33% |
nice 36% |
nice 36% |
nice 45% |
nice 39% |
nice 42% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | |||||
Rain |
rainy 232mm |
rainy 208mm |
rainy 169mm |
dry 44mm |
dry 30mm |
dry 20mm |
dry 16mm |
dry 20mm |
dry 31mm |
rainy 115mm |
rainy 135mm |
rainy 180mm |
Cloud |
cloudy 59% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 39% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 17% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 48% |
pockets 34% |
cloudy 50% |
Air quality |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 35 US AQI |
clean 36 US AQI |
clean 35 US AQI |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 31 US AQI |
clean 37 US AQI |
clean 35 US AQI |
clean 35 US AQI |
clean 25 US AQI |
clean 31 US AQI |
clean 34 US AQI |
Sun |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 🚕4h $1,724 / mo 19 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82° 🥵 🚕4h $1,542 / mo 19 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️13min $3,893 / mo 19 Mbps ×
“Don’t take your phone out” is some outdated advice… there are several people on the streets and in the metro using phones and taking pictures. Remember that nothing stays the same forever. Rio is safer than many people describe. Use your common sense.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80° 🥵 ✈️23min $2,203 / mo 41 Mbps ×Nice and clean modern city. Nothing about it fitted my preconceptions I had as a European about Brazil: I though it'd be dangerous with favelas everywhere. Of course this is South Brazil so it's rich and very different than the North. Curitiba feels more like a Western European city than anything. It can get quite cold in the winter (which is June/July/Aug for Europeans). It has great public transport, and apparently is known for its modern urban planning that grew it from a small town in the 19
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80° 🥵 ✈️33min $1,484 / mo 20 Mbps ×Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° ✈️34min $1,472 / mo 20 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️39min $1,387 / mo 29 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️39min $1,709 / mo 18 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 80° ✈️41min $2,762 / mo 18 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81° 🥵 ✈️42min $1,285 / mo 19 Mbps ×
Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 ✈️44min $1,573 / mo 67 Mbps ×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55° ✈️13h $5,535 / mo 36 Mbps ×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 27° 81° AQI 46 ✈️2h $1,554 / mo 75 Mbps ×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80° 🥵 AQI 53 😷 🚕3h $1,934 / mo 87 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 16° 61° AQI 10 ✈️16h $3,562 / mo 30 Mbps ×
Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° ✈️34min $1,472 / mo 20 Mbps ×Busy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69° AQI 42 ✈️16h $3,318 / mo 71 Mbps ×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80° 🥵 AQI 53 😷 🚕3h $1,934 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people דDon’t take your phone out” is some outdated advice… there are several people on the streets and in the metro using phones and taking pictures. Remember that nothing stays the same forever. Rio is safer than many people describe. Use your common sense.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80° 🥵 ✈️23min $2,203 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 ✈️44min $1,573 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 27° 81° AQI 46 ✈️2h $1,554 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety bad Tap to open ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 76° ✈️10h $2,128 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 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 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57° ✈️10h $6,505 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×It used to be a nice city for nomads, but its out-priced now and don't recommend it. I am a single female- remote worker from USA with residence permit of 2 years and have to say its not what it used to be. Stormy tropical weather as we speak so unpredictable these days. Landlords charging ridiculous prices and amenities just don't match quality that should be given. Looking into Spain as we speak..
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52° AQI 31 ✈️11h $2,860 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×One of the worst cities in N.America. Insanely expensive, people are awkward and making friends is difficult. Lots of homeless and mentally ill and drug addicts everywhere. Lots of construction. American corpo work culture with zero benefits of American corpo work culture, low salaries. If you want to live in North American city try to go to US instead, NY, Chicago, Miami, all of these are better.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48° AQI 53 😷 ✈️11h $4,175 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58° AQI 32 ✈️12h $5,078 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53° AQI 29 ✈️12h $5,022 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55° ✈️13h $5,535 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49° AQI 65 😷 ✈️13h $5,409 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48° AQI 3 ✈️13h $4,813 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 17° 63° 16° 60° AQI 42 ✈️13h $5,022 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58° AQI 65 😷 ✈️13h $4,352 / mo 🌇 Also went here3 people ×
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