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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 209 reviews |
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| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 11 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌧 18°C 64°F + 💦 Humid (64%) + 💨 14km/h = feels like 18°C 64°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 76 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 154 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.41 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 USD 141 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,090,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 20,890 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,100,000 people |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| no-beachbeachairportmildmild nowslow internetlow crimehigh humiditymany menfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,759 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,299 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,685 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $767 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $406 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $70 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $652 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $31 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $2,316 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $76 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $4 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $5 |
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🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 101😷✈️2h$2,125 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleits very possible to be a digital nomad in japan - 3 months tourist visa on arrival. free wifi at st
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| Feels like | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 10943° scorching | 11848° scorching | 11546° scorching | 10842° scorching | 9032° hot | 7725° warm | 7021° mild |
| Real temperature | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7222° mild | 7926° warm | 8228° very warm | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 7725° warm | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | comfy 74% | comfy 79% | comfy 80% | comfy 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 73% | comfy 69% | comfy 67% | comfy 76% |
| Rain | not rainy 8mm | not rainy 26mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 62mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 95mm | rainy 131mm | not rainy 33mm | not rainy 7mm | not rainy 1mm | not rainy 27mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 32% | pockets 49% | cloudy 56% | pockets 38% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 57% | pockets 18% | pockets 25% | pockets 24% | pockets 40% |
| Air quality | bad 86 AQI | bad 85 AQI | bad 92 AQI | bad 89 AQI | bad 80 AQI | clean 61 AQI | clean 62 AQI | clean 70 AQI | clean 71 AQI | bad 81 AQI | bad 77 AQI | clean 73 AQI |
| UV Index | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI |
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✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Bad air quality usually
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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