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| ⭐️ Total score | 208 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 76°F + 😊 Comfy (89%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 76.5 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | ZTE |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Jinguan Hotel |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Regency Grand Hotel |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | GreenTree Alliance Hotel |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $878 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $604 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $901 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $257 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $222 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $104 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $511 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $24 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 100 listings) | $1,337 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $44 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ 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 | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10943° scorching | 8630° warm | 7524° warm | 7021° mild |
| Real | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8932° hot | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | nice 74% | nice 79% | nice 79% | nice 80% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 77% | nice 72% | nice 75% |
| Rain | dry 4mm | dry 46mm | dry 19mm | dry 22mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 213mm | rainy 110mm | rainy 196mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 204mm | dry 3mm | dry 35mm |
| Cloud | pockets 24% | pockets 24% | pockets 47% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 74% | overcast 92% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 86% | pockets 41% | cloudy 72% | pockets 49% | cloudy 54% |
| Air quality | okay 93 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 88 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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