⭐️ Total score | 2.87/5 (Rank #1014) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,586 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 0.00Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 32°C89°F (feels 44°C111°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 81% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 104 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (81%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 104.5 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.49 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 149 |
💸 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 | 1,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 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 | $1,586 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $997 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,740 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $783 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $417 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $75 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,110 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 74 listings) | $1,130 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $5 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 9736° hot | 10943° scorching | 10641° scorching | 9535° hot | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5412° cool |
Real | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8530° very warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5412° cool |
Humidity | nice 66% | damp 73% | damp 76% | nice 66% | nice 69% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 77% | nice 70% | nice 64% | nice 59% |
Rain | dry 20mm | dry 45mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 173mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 339mm | rainy 159mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 78mm | dry 39mm | dry 6mm |
Cloud | cloudy 61% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 82% | overcast 90% | cloudy 87% | overcast 93% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 51% | pockets 29% |
Air quality | bad 170 US AQI | bad 172 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 99 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI | bad 151 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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