⭐️ Total score |
2.82/5 (Rank #1078)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,060 / mo
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📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 3Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 36°C96°F (feels 46°C115°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 54%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 106 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 33 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Okay |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$235 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Good |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Okay |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
👩 Female friendly |
Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Middle East |
🚩 Country | Egypt |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌤 36°C 96°F + 😊 Comfy (54%) = feels 46°C 115°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 106 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 33.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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📱 Best wireless carrier | Vodafone |
💸 100 EGP in USD | USD 5.32 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EGP 10,000 = USD 532 |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Costa Coffee |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Alfredo Restaurant |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Maze |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,600,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,823 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | AirEgypt |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | AirEgypt |
🏥 Best hospital | Ahmed Shafik |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,060 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $635 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $983 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $281 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $186 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $66 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $833 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $39 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 497 listings) | $1,287 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Good hospitals
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ 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+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
70
21° mild |
70
21° mild |
72
22° mild |
82
28° warm |
93
34° hot |
99
37° hot |
111
44° scorching |
113
45° scorching |
100
38° hot |
88
31° hot |
84
29° warm |
68
20° mild |
Real |
68
20°
mild |
70
21°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
82
28°
very warm |
91
33°
hot |
92
34°
hot |
97
36°
hot |
97
36°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
84
29°
very warm |
81
27°
warm |
66
19°
mild |
Humidity |
nice 60% |
nice 60% |
nice 52% |
nice 44% |
nice 40% |
nice 50% |
nice 50% |
nice 52% |
nice 56% |
nice 59% |
nice 65% |
nice 61% |
Rain |
dry 2mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 1mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 1mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 8mm |
Cloud |
pockets 31% |
pockets 28% |
pockets 20% |
pockets 15% |
clear 9% |
clear 7% |
clear 7% |
clear 9% |
pockets 11% |
pockets 22% |
pockets 31% |
cloudy 50% |
Air quality |
clean 31 US AQI |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 29 US AQI |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 30 US AQI |
clean 32 US AQI |
clean 37 US AQI |
clean 34 US AQI |
clean 35 US AQI |
clean 31 US AQI |
clean 37 US AQI |
clean 37 US AQI |
Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 12 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 29° 83° AQI 21 ✈️3h $2,890 / mo 🌇 Also went here5 people ×Lived 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° AQI 24 ✈️4h $4,165 / mo 🌇 Also went here7 people ×A 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71° AQI 30 ✈️5h $2,260 / mo 🌇 Also went here5 people ×Good: - Great local food - Portuguese people are amazingly friendly - Vibrant DN community. It's like the city has been overtaken by remote workers. You will see everyone working on their laptop everywhere you go. - Amazing views whenever you want; you can just get a beer and climb to one of the viewpoints to see the sunset. Easy and magical. - Super cheap Ubers, easy subway Bad: - Housing prices. I'm not kidding, it's the worst I've ever seen. Ultra overpriced. I guess that's the problem when
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 27 ✈️5h $2,353 / mo 🌇 Also went here7 people ×I cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 65 ✈️10h $1,257 / mo 🌇 Also went here5 people ×Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87° 🥵 AQI 38 ✈️10h $1,234 / mo 🌇 Also went here5 people ×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 29° 85° AQI 19 ✈️12h $5,325 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×The places to rent are not very good. Poor design and low quality furniture. You won't find one that comes with a good desk and chair. Most of them don't have a good place to put one even if you bring your own. Hard water is common and unpleasant. Can't walk around due to small roads, traffic, sometimes unfriendly stray dogs. It does have good restaurants, lots of variety from many international cuisines. Not that great for Indonesian food though. Probably better for a short visit rather than
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 84° 🥵 AQI 79 😷 ✈️13h $1,518 / mo 🌇 Also went here4 people ×