⭐️ Total score | 2.8/5 (Rank #1074) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,044 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 30% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 85 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 146 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 24°C 75°F + 🌵 Too dry (30%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 85 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 146.5 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.47 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 147 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,700,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,044 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $658 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,200 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $628 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $295 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $74 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $478 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $22 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 6 listings) | $381 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $13 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ 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 | 27-3° freezing | 436° cold | 5513° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 9535° hot | 8831° hot | 7725° warm | 6317° cool | 468° cold | 341° cold |
Real | 30-1° freezing | 447° cold | 5513° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 7625° warm | 6116° cool | 489° cold | 373° very cold |
Humidity | nice 39% | nice 46% | nice 57% | nice 39% | nice 43% | nice 63% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 79% | nice 79% | nice 63% | nice 68% | nice 45% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 10mm | dry 20mm | dry 26mm | dry 8mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 364mm | rainy 113mm | rainy 141mm | rainy 62mm | dry 40mm | dry 0mm |
Cloud | pockets 18% | pockets 15% | pockets 49% | cloudy 56% | pockets 45% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 73% | pockets 39% | pockets 19% | clear 5% |
Air quality | bad 165 US AQI | bad 172 US AQI | bad 155 US AQI | bad 145 US AQI | bad 148 US AQI | bad 151 US AQI | bad 154 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 135 US AQI | bad 150 US AQI | bad 162 US AQI | bad 163 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
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