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| ⭐️ Overall score | 210 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Shenyang is fast averaging 16 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~2 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 31°C 88°F + 😊 Comfy (56%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 82 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.29 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 129 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Regus |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 8,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 10x10m (100m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €1,084 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €722 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,977 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €565 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €275 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €65 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €508 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €24 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (225 listings) | €863 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €28 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ 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 | 23-5° freezing | 27-3° freezing | 457° cold | 5915° cool | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 9736° hot | 8429° warm | 7323° mild | 6418° cool | 362° cold | 18-8° freezing |
| Real | 27-3° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 489° cold | 5915° cool | 7725° warm | 7826° warm | 8630° very warm | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 6317° cool | 384° very cold | 23-5° freezing |
| Humidity | too dry 23% | too dry 28% | nice 37% | nice 34% | nice 35% | nice 69% | sweaty 74% | nice 85% | nice 68% | nice 50% | nice 41% | nice 55% |
| Rain | dry 0mm | dry 2mm | dry 7mm | dry 9mm | rainy 59mm | dry 49mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 111mm | dry 33mm | dry 12mm | dry 25mm | dry 13mm |
| Cloud | clear 7% | pockets 24% | pockets 26% | pockets 31% | pockets 42% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 73% | pockets 17% | pockets 18% | pockets 25% | pockets 33% |
| Air quality | bad 136 US AQI | bad 143 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 111 US AQI | okay 98 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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