⭐️ Total score | 2.36/5 (Rank #509) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,476 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 17Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 8°C46°F (feels 5°C41°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 50% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 38 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 65 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $642 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Kazakhstan |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 8°C 46°F + 😊 Comfy (50%) = feels 5°C 41°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 38 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 65 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Yandex Taxi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 1,000 KZT in USD | USD 2.26 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | KZT 100,000 = USD 226 |
💻 Best coworking space | http://multispace.kz/ |
☕️ Best coffee place | http://www.eagilik.com/ |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | http://hotel diplomat & business center |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | http://www.diplomathotel.kz/ |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 810,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $7,705 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | http://www.travelmob.com |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Astana |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Astana |
🏥 Best hospital | http://capital hostel astana |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,476 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $975 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,842 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $526 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $809 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,291 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $405 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $38 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $74 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ 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 | -6-21° freezing | 12-11° freezing | 14-10° freezing | 436° cold | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 5211° cool | 394° cold | 18-8° freezing | 12-11° freezing |
Real | 5-15° freezing | 19-8° freezing | 23-5° freezing | 468° cold | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7424° warm | 8027° warm | 5412° cool | 436° very cold | 25-4° freezing | 20-7° freezing |
Humidity | too dry 29% | nice 34% | nice 38% | too dry 29% | too dry 23% | too dry 26% | too dry 26% | too dry 24% | too dry 28% | nice 33% | nice 33% | nice 35% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 12mm | dry 21mm | dry 25mm | dry 11mm | dry 37mm | dry 43mm | rainy 55mm | dry 14mm | dry 27mm | dry 27mm | dry 32mm | dry 26mm |
Cloud | pockets 42% | cloudy 50% | pockets 46% | pockets 33% | pockets 23% | pockets 43% | pockets 42% | pockets 27% | pockets 36% | pockets 40% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 52% |
Air quality | okay 89 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 88 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 250 people | 200 people | 300 people | 300 people | 333 people | 240 people | 350 people | 360 people | 933 people | 433 people | 300 people | 250 people |
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