⭐️ Total score | 2.5/5 (Rank #602) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,034 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 7Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 21°C69°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 11% |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Okay |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $368 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
✈️ Airline scores* | Great |
🧳 Lost luggage* | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | Namibia |
🗓️ Average trip length | 8 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 21°C 69°F + 🌵 Too dry (11%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 NAD in USD | USD 5.48 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NAD 10,000 = USD 548 |
💻 Best coworking space | Regus |
☕️ Best coffee place | The Joy of Food Windhoek |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 330,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,415 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Namibia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Namibia |
🏥 Best hospital | Rhino Park Private Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,034 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,047 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,931 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $552 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,340 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,248 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $345 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $63 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $41 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $226 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $9 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,711 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $11 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm |
Real | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7826° warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 6519° mild | 6519° mild | 7122° mild | 7926° warm | 8027° warm | 8329° very warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | nice 38% | too dry 24% | too dry 26% | too dry 20% | too dry 18% | too dry 17% | too dry 14% | too dry 11% | too dry 8% | too dry 8% | too dry 8% | too dry 11% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | rainy 135mm | dry 42mm | rainy 62mm | dry 3mm | dry 4mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 13mm | dry 4mm | dry 5mm |
Cloud | cloudy 53% | pockets 28% | pockets 24% | pockets 19% | clear 9% | clear 6% | clear 4% | clear 5% | clear 9% | clear 4% | pockets 10% | pockets 15% |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 13 UVI | avoid sun 13 UVI |
Remote workers | 233 people | 250 people | 400 people | 250 people | 360 people | 333 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 450 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 59😷✈️2h$2,133 / mo59Mbps×Lusaka is a bustling city full of surprises if you look. The downside is rent is on the pricey side than say what you would expect to pay in most places in SEA. You can find some low rental places but then you'd be putting yourself in an environment that's not particularly safe. I'd pick a neighbourhood like Kabulonga, Woodlands, Chilenje, Ibex Hill or Makeni. Getting around is easier if you have a car or find a reliable cabby. You can also use the local rideshare app called Ulendo Taxi, it work
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 28° 82°AQI 38✈️10h$2,691 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 55😷✈️11h$5,433 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️11h$3,827 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 27✈️11h$5,660 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 65😷✈️13h$1,267 / mo🌇 Also went here26 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°✈️13h$6,057 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 60😷✈️13h$1,353 / mo🌇 Also went here33 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️16h$6,831 / mo🌇 Also went here22 people×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93°🥵AQI 42✈️19h$3,064 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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