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| ⭐️ Total score | 7 reviews |
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| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
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| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | India |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 90 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 60 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 INR in USD | USD 1.22 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | INR 10,000 = USD 122 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 7% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Coffee Day |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,700,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,706 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 33% 👱♀️ 67% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | 99Acres |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Indigo |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Jet Airways |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,017 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $4,880 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $17,998 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $5,142 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $836 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $995 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $5,857 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $39 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $33 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $142 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 10239° hot | 10641° scorching | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 9736° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot | 9736° hot |
| Real | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 81% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 75% |
| Rain | rainy 99mm | dry 16mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 142mm | rainy 532mm | rainy 225mm | rainy 260mm | rainy 191mm | rainy 188mm | rainy 457mm | rainy 337mm | rainy 62mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 57% | pockets 35% | pockets 47% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 88% | overcast 93% | pockets 48% |
| Air quality | bad 146 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 100 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 162😷✈️3h$2,034 / mo11MbpsStayed a whole month in Fort Kochi area, eventually going to Ernakulam (downtown area). It is unarguably very different than rest of India, much more cleaner and with friendlier people. Beaches aren`t nice for bathing but are a great choice to catch sunsets everyday. Cost of living is dirty cheap and public transport is good. They even have a subway crossing the city with reminds me the BTS in Bangkok. Actually, Kochi to me is like a small and boring version of Bangkok, which is good if you need
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 43°AQI 78😷✈️8h$2,960 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleGreat place if you like Korean cuisine and fresh fish in general. Haedong Yonggungsa seaside temple is the absolute highlight. Locals are helpful, too bad 8/10 won't speak english. Young people included! Remember: Uber, Grab, Google Maps won't work in Korea, in favour of Kakao app which is pure garbage and all in Korean. And by the way pornography is illegal.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 42✈️8h$2,612 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 45✈️11h$6,623 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 64✈️11h$5,494 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 25✈️11h$4,549 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peoplePlease don’t come. Rent has doubled in price in a matter of 5yrs. Myself and other locals are being pushed out of the city and forced to move to places that are +1h commute from work. People are struggling and suffering. And yet it is all ok because rich foreigners want to “spice up” their life… I repeat, do not come, and if you do have to come, please try to do damage control
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 34✈️12h$3,430 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people
