⭐️ Total score | 2.25/5 (Rank #1192) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,044 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 19°C67°F (feels 20°C68°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 73% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 82 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 100 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Zhangzhou is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 19°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (73%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 82 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 100.75 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 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 | 570,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 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 | $3,044 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $4,280 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $16,053 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $4,587 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,110 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $768 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $4,937 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $25 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $194 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Too expensive
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ 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 | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 10943° scorching | 10440° hot | 11546° scorching | 11747° scorching | 11546° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 6619° mild |
Real | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 9032° hot | 8630° very warm | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6619° mild |
Humidity | nice 68% | nice 72% | nice 73% | nice 69% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 74% | nice 72% | nice 71% |
Rain | dry 4mm | rainy 51mm | dry 36mm | rainy 50mm | rainy 164mm | rainy 173mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 281mm | rainy 91mm | rainy 74mm | dry 16mm | dry 37mm |
Cloud | pockets 31% | pockets 27% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 88% | overcast 97% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 89% | pockets 48% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 61% |
Air quality | bad 141 US AQI | bad 140 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | bad 111 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | bad 111 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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