⭐️ Overall Score | 3.08/5 (Rank #529) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $971 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 2Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C78°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 83% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 76 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 139 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🎓 Education level | Low |
💰 Income level | Very Low: $610/y |
🙊 English speaking | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Region | Africa |
🚩 Country | Uganda |
⏱ Average trip duration | 13 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 26°C 78°F + 😊 Comfy (83%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 76 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 139 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Tecno Mobile Uganda |
💸 10,000 UGX in USD | USD 2.74 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UGX 1,000,000 = USD 274 |
💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | The Hub |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Hivecolab |
☕️ Best coffee place | Prunes Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Metropole |
🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 15% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $610 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Air BnB |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Uganda |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Alliance Air |
🏥 Best hospital | Case Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $971 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $527 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $844 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $241 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $165 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $124 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $751 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $35 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $1,005 / month |
🏠 Airbnb | $33 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm |
Real | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8027° warm | 7524° warm | 7424° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 71% | nice 69% | nice 70% | sweaty 80% | nice 88% | nice 86% | nice 79% | nice 79% | nice 81% | nice 87% | nice 84% | nice 86% |
Rain | dry 45mm | dry 37mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 86mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 167mm | rainy 77mm | dry 49mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 169mm | rainy 108mm | rainy 90mm |
Cloud | cloudy 67% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 69% | pockets 46% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 71% |
Air quality | bad 149 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 119 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 144 US AQI | bad 143 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 124 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI |
Nomad List members | 1 people | 0 people | 0 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people |
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⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 39✈️30min$1,412 / mo4Mbps×I visited Nairobi twice - in 2017 and then again in 2019. On my second visit, I stayed in a comfortable 2 bdrm apartment with friends. It was super easy to move around - just call Uber. I visited a few nice shopping malls where I shopped and ate lunch. Prices were reasonable for me (an American). I'm also vegan and there were vegan options at all of the restaurants I visited as well as a great vegan restaurant (Indian cuisine). The best part of the trip for us was going on safari. It's a lon
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⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 93😷✈️1h$1,484 / mo9Mbps×Mogadishu is a really fun place to live. Very exciting. Only lost two close friends last year.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 116😷✈️2h$2,768 / mo2Mbps×Spent 1 month here with my girlfriend. The place has potential, but is not quite there yet. Pollution can be pretty bad. Otherwise it's very pretty and the people are helpful. You can find workable Internet, but not everywhere. Try Nyarutarama, which has a lot of embassies. Not extremely cheap, but affordable. Definitely take a trip to Lake Kivu and Volcanoes National Park in the North. Food isn't that great. The most common and cheapest way of getting around is by mototaxi, but beware, they can
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 39✈️30min$1,412 / mo4Mbps×I visited Nairobi twice - in 2017 and then again in 2019. On my second visit, I stayed in a comfortable 2 bdrm apartment with friends. It was super easy to move around - just call Uber. I visited a few nice shopping malls where I shopped and ate lunch. Prices were reasonable for me (an American). I'm also vegan and there were vegan options at all of the restaurants I visited as well as a great vegan restaurant (Indian cuisine). The best part of the trip for us was going on safari. It's a lon
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⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 42° 108° 34° 93°🥵AQI 108😷✈️9h$2,990 / mo7Mbps×All in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 42✈️18h$3,588 / mo68Mbps×You can have MGTS landline internet 500mbps for $10/mo. Only swiss products in groceries, no EU due to current sanctions. Really cheap life, if you are rich i'd recommend AzbukaVkusa groceries. A lot of expensive restaurants.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 66✈️8h$1,792 / mo19Mbps×Spent 1 month here with my girlfriend. The place has potential, but is not quite there yet. Pollution can be pretty bad. Otherwise it's very pretty and the people are helpful. You can find workable Internet, but not everywhere. Try Nyarutarama, which has a lot of embassies. Not extremely cheap, but affordable. Definitely take a trip to Lake Kivu and Volcanoes National Park in the North. Food isn't that great. The most common and cheapest way of getting around is by mototaxi, but beware, they can
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 39✈️30min$1,412 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×I visited Nairobi twice - in 2017 and then again in 2019. On my second visit, I stayed in a comfortable 2 bdrm apartment with friends. It was super easy to move around - just call Uber. I visited a few nice shopping malls where I shopped and ate lunch. Prices were reasonable for me (an American). I'm also vegan and there were vegan options at all of the restaurants I visited as well as a great vegan restaurant (Indian cuisine). The best part of the trip for us was going on safari. It's a lon
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⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 45✈️7h$1,514 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×Lived in Barcelona for a year and a half. I would agree that the weather is perfect and Barcelona does have a great tech scene as well as food and has everything landscape and lifestyle wise that you could think of. Bureaucracy isn't too bad if you nip it in the bu** early and have patience. Also, some clubs are free. (Jamboree!). The metro is also, very efficient with red and purple being the busiest lines. Very walkable city too. Plenty of opportunity to meet people as well. The beaches are ok
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 43✈️7h$3,129 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×Vienna is nice if you're a tourist and want to see beautiful old architecture. And I guess it's nice if you want to live here for a long time, since it's quite safe and clean. But it's borderline impossible to live and work here short-term as a nomad. There's no good cafes to work from, the coworkings here are of extremely mediocre to bad quality here. Except for greaaaat Asian food, other food is difficult to get, there's either affordable takeaway fast food or expensive in-door fancy dining re
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 30✈️7h$2,847 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×The bar & restaurant scene in Madrid is unparalleled, next level. I can't imagine what this place must have been like without COVID.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 30✈️8h$2,840 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 37✈️8h$2,987 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×Super fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 35✈️8h$4,073 / mo🌇 Also went here15 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.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 22✈️9h$4,202 / mo🌇 Also went here17 people×Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 41° 106° 32° 90°🥵AQI 84😷✈️10h$1,415 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×First time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86°🥵AQI 73✈️10h$1,291 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️11h$2,879 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×Honestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 15✈️12h$1,777 / mo🌇 Also went here13 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.
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