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| ⭐️ Overall score | 203 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Urumqi is fast averaging 64 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~8 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 16°C 61°F + 🌵 Too dry (28%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 68 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 75 US AQI = 🚬🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 155 |
| 💸 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 | 1,800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 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 | $1,626 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,061 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,229 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $637 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $325 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $77 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,107 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (41 listings) | $1,815 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $60 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ 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 | 19-7° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 362° cold | 6317° cool | 7323° mild | 8228° warm | 9032° hot | 8429° warm | 7725° warm | 5915° cool | 362° cold | 25-4° freezing |
| Real | 20-7° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 352° very cold | 6217° cool | 7323° mild | 8329° very warm | 9032° hot | 8530° very warm | 7725° warm | 5815° cool | 373° very cold | 25-4° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 70% | nice 69% | nice 70% | nice 52% | nice 39% | nice 38% | nice 32% | nice 35% | nice 37% | nice 45% | nice 67% | damp 73% |
| Rain | dry 1mm | dry 4mm | dry 1mm | dry 10mm | dry 9mm | dry 12mm | dry 6mm | dry 6mm | dry 11mm | dry 3mm | dry 9mm | dry 3mm |
| Cloud | pockets 45% | pockets 49% | pockets 28% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 53% | pockets 37% | pockets 37% | pockets 35% | pockets 41% | pockets 42% | cloudy 52% |
| Air quality | bad 232 US AQI | bad 198 US AQI | bad 154 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | bad 146 US AQI | bad 180 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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