⭐️ Total score |
2.41/5 (Rank #384)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,651 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Nice: 19°C67°F (feels 20°C68°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 52%
|
💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Great: 42 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 84 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Great
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
|
🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
😤 People density |
🧘♀️ Low density: 8k ppl/km² (1 per 11x11m)
|
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Okay |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) |
5 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Guiyang is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 19°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (52%) = feels 20°C 68°F
|
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 85 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 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 | 3,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 55% 👱♀️ 45% |
👫 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 | $1,651 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $817 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,406 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $688 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,817 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $867 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $418 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $85 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $28 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $131 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
43
6° cold |
45
7° cold |
55
13° cool |
61
16° cool |
70
21° mild |
73
23° mild |
77
25° warm |
75
24° warm |
73
23° mild |
59
15° cool |
52
11° cool |
46
8° cold |
Real |
42
6°
very cold |
45
7°
cold |
55
13°
cool |
60
16°
cool |
69
21°
mild |
73
23°
mild |
76
25°
warm |
74
24°
warm |
73
23°
mild |
59
15°
cool |
52
11°
cool |
46
8°
cold |
Humidity |
nice 38% |
nice 44% |
nice 43% |
nice 47% |
nice 47% |
nice 47% |
nice 45% |
nice 46% |
nice 43% |
nice 45% |
nice 42% |
nice 37% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 45mm |
rainy 70mm |
dry 50mm |
rainy 118mm |
rainy 190mm |
rainy 242mm |
rainy 187mm |
rainy 169mm |
rainy 108mm |
rainy 108mm |
rainy 67mm |
dry 39mm |
Cloud |
pockets 48% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 49% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 43% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 48% |
pockets 48% |
pockets 49% |
Air quality |
bad 108 US AQI |
bad 125 US AQI |
bad 118 US AQI |
bad 116 US AQI |
okay 99 US AQI |
okay 72 US AQI |
okay 66 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 82 US AQI |
okay 86 US AQI |
bad 104 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 400 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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