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| ⭐️ Total score | 1 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food 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* | |
| 😄 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) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Zhucheng is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 9°C 48°F + 🌵 Too dry (25%) = feels 7°C 45°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 177 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 82 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.40 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 140 |
| 💸 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 | 1,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 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 | $1,859 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,420 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,649 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,042 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,046 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,696 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $783 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $56 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $106 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ 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
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
34
1° cold |
43
6° cold |
57
14° cool |
63
17° cool |
75
24° warm |
88
31° hot |
95
35° hot |
95
35° hot |
77
25° warm |
64
18° cool |
57
14° cool |
45
7° cold |
| Real |
37
3°
very cold |
46
8°
cold |
57
14°
cool |
63
17°
cool |
75
24°
warm |
82
28°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
77
25°
warm |
64
18°
cool |
57
14°
cool |
46
8°
cold |
| Humidity |
nice 57% |
nice 55% |
nice 58% |
nice 49% |
nice 54% |
sweaty 75% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 82% |
nice 84% |
nice 65% |
nice 68% |
nice 52% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 6mm |
dry 36mm |
dry 26mm |
rainy 58mm |
dry 36mm |
rainy 63mm |
rainy 140mm |
rainy 121mm |
rainy 117mm |
dry 37mm |
dry 31mm |
dry 2mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 29% |
pockets 38% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 62% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 79% |
cloudy 84% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 70% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 25% |
| Air quality |
bad 164 US AQI |
bad 169 US AQI |
bad 117 US AQI |
okay 100 US AQI |
okay 94 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
okay 61 US AQI |
okay 80 US AQI |
bad 118 US AQI |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 143 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 9° 48° AQI 169 😷 🚕3h $1,574 / mo 14 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 8° 46° 10° 49° AQI 247 😷 🚕3h $1,585 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 52° AQI 200 😷 ✈️11min $1,121 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 9° 48° 10° 49° AQI 160 😷 ✈️12min $1,492 / mo 4 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54° AQI 180 😷 ✈️13min $1,262 / mo 4 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 9° 49° AQI 152 😷 ✈️15min $1,205 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 6° 43° 8° 46° AQI 236 😷 ✈️20min $1,186 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53° AQI 248 😷 ✈️20min $1,085 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 55° AQI 168 😷 ✈️20min $3,251 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56° AQI 163 😷 ✈️21min $2,528 / mo 3 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 8° 47° AQI 223 😷 ✈️24min $3,311 / mo 3 Mbps
Lived here over 5 years. Quite polluted and grim, not many expats. Life quality was low. Consider for double renumeration only.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56° AQI 179 😷 ✈️24min $1,135 / mo 3 Mbps
