⭐️ Total score | 3.04/5 (Rank #701) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,333 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 25Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 22°C72°F (feels 22°C72°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 49% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 70 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 79 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $2,315 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | South Korea |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 25 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 22°C 72°F + 😊 Comfy (49%) = feels 22°C 72°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 70 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 79 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | KT Olleh |
💸 10,000 KRW in USD | USD 7.91 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | KRW 100,000 = USD 79 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks Suwon City Hall |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Hive Arena |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 950,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $27,785 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Gmarket |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jeju Air |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Jeju Air |
🏥 Best hospital | Ajou University Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,333 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,472 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,188 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $911 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $628 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $178 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,130 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $53 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 175 listings) | $1,446 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $47 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $10 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 27-3° freezing | 436° cold | 5412° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 8127° warm | 10440° hot | 9032° hot | 7725° warm | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 394° cold |
Real | 30-1° freezing | 457° cold | 5412° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7826° warm | 8831° hot | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 415° very cold |
Humidity | nice 57% | nice 58% | nice 63% | nice 52% | nice 70% | nice 75% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 78% | nice 72% | nice 69% | nice 67% | nice 62% |
Rain | dry 22mm | dry 9mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 187mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 127mm | rainy 159mm | rainy 154mm | dry 44mm | rainy 68mm | dry 13mm |
Cloud | pockets 35% | pockets 40% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 52% | pockets 49% | pockets 37% |
Air quality | bad 104 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | okay 68 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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