⭐️ Total score | 2.61/5 (Rank #841) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $913 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 7Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 15°C59°F (feels 16°C61°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 31% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 109 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 106 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $176 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (1 per 16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Uzbekistan |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 15°C 59°F + 😊 Comfy (31%) = feels 16°C 61°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 109 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 106 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100,000 UZS in USD | USD 8.12 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | UZS 1,000,000 = USD 81 |
💻 Best coworking space | T4K |
☕️ Best coffee place | Mangit Art |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍16% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,116 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 89% 👱♀️ 11% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Golden Pages |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Uzbeikistan Airways |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Uzbekistan Airways |
🏥 Best hospital | Tashkent International Clinic |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $913 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $436 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $185 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $53 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,055 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,447 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $413 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $47 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $84 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $0.00 |
👩🏫 International school | $0.00 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 415° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 7222° mild | 8429° warm | 8831° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 8127° warm | 6418° cool | 5211° cool | 5211° cool |
Real | 415° very cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 7222° mild | 8429° very warm | 9133° hot | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 8429° very warm | 6317° cool | 5211° cool | 5211° cool |
Humidity | nice 67% | nice 62% | nice 67% | nice 41% | nice 38% | too dry 23% | too dry 26% | too dry 24% | too dry 24% | nice 42% | nice 53% | nice 63% |
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Rain | dry 21mm | dry 44mm | rainy 109mm | dry 41mm | dry 16mm | dry 6mm | dry 4mm | dry 3mm | dry 0mm | dry 46mm | dry 27mm | dry 41mm |
Cloud | cloudy 58% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 80% | pockets 39% | pockets 42% | pockets 17% | pockets 25% | pockets 18% | clear 2% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 68% |
Air quality | okay 80 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | bad 106* US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 117 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 400 people | 200 people | 514 people | 320 people | 267 people | 333 people | 286 people | 325 people | 640 people | 750 people | 250 people | 200 people |
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