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| ⭐️ Total score | 1 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Zibo is fast averaging 32 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~4 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 11°C 52°F + 🌵 Too dry (30%) = feels 11°C 52°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 154 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 135 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.41 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 141 |
| 💸 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 | 2,800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 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 | $1,493 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $893 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,136 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $610 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,054 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $989 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $451 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $32 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $154 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $9,276 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ 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 | 362° cold | 489° cold | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 8127° warm | 9334° hot | 10440° hot | 9133° hot | 8127° warm | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 468° cold |
| Real | 394° very cold | 5010° cold | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7926° warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 7826° warm | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 489° cold |
| Humidity | nice 50% | nice 47% | nice 51% | nice 43% | nice 47% | nice 56% | nice 69% | sweaty 72% | nice 70% | nice 62% | nice 63% | nice 47% |
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| Rain | dry 5mm | dry 31mm | dry 19mm | rainy 55mm | dry 33mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 123mm | rainy 130mm | dry 49mm | dry 47mm | dry 5mm |
| Cloud | pockets 24% | pockets 29% | pockets 49% | cloudy 65% | pockets 46% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 60% | pockets 24% | pockets 11% |
| Air quality | bad 176 US AQI | bad 172 US AQI | bad 158 US AQI | bad 150 US AQI | bad 146 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 122 US AQI | bad 113 US AQI | bad 131 US AQI | bad 151 US AQI | bad 165 US AQI | bad 166 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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