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| ⭐️ Total score | 5 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 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* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 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 | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Tianjin is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 4°C 38°F + 🌵 Too dry (10%) = feels 2°C 36°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 74 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 115.5 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 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 coworking space | Co-working Developing Co. LTD |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Jileshi Café |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | SPR Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Dave's ESL Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 750,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 14,374 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 16,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 10x10m (100m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 60% 👱♀️ 40% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Locanto |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Tianjin United Family Hospital and Clinics |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,165 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,250 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,352 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $958 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,643 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,082 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $891 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $124 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $35 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $149 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ 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 | 30-1° freezing | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 9032° hot | 10038° hot | 9032° hot | 7725° warm | 6317° cool | 5211° cool | 373° cold |
| Real | 341° very cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 6116° cool | 5211° cool | 415° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 30% | nice 41% | nice 53% | nice 37% | nice 38% | nice 63% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 78% | nice 81% | nice 58% | nice 65% | nice 39% |
| Rain | dry 1mm | dry 15mm | dry 17mm | dry 14mm | dry 8mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 279mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 124mm | rainy 90mm | dry 43mm | dry 1mm |
| Cloud | pockets 25% | pockets 14% | pockets 46% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 75% | pockets 43% | pockets 11% | clear 8% |
| Air quality | bad 133 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 140 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 113 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | bad 114 US AQI | bad 122 US AQI | bad 117 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 |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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