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| ⭐️ Total score | 514 reviews |
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| 👌 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* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Switzerland |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 28 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 5°C 41°F + 💦 Damp (81%) = feels 4°C 39°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 2 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Seefeld |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Wollishofen |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CHF 100 = USD 110 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | CoLab Zurich |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Impact Hub |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 2,240,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 42,930 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 400,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $79,609 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 80% 👱♀️ 20% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Digitec |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Easyjet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Swiss |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $6,992 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $4,266 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $8,904 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $2,544 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,092 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,683 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,650 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $145 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $121 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $485 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $37 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $5 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $10 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $7 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $4,328 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $14,553 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $65,337 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 362° cold | 489° cold | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 394° cold |
| Real | 362° very cold | 489° cold | 489° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 6921° mild | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 394° very cold |
| Humidity | damp 76% | damp 72% | nice 65% | nice 62% | damp 74% | nice 77% | nice 84% | nice 79% | nice 79% | damp 75% | damp 78% | damp 79% |
| Rain | rainy 190mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 195mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 210mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 51mm | dry 38mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 127mm |
| Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 89% |
| Air quality | clean 2 US AQI | clean 3 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 1 US AQI | clean 1 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI | clean 3 US AQI | clean 2 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,029 people | 756 people | 1,289 people | 1,127 people | 1,046 people | 920 people | 1,200 people | 1,686 people | 1,138 people | 1,145 people | 1,300 people | 1,154 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 1° 34° 3° 37°AQI 29🚕2h$7,165 / mo33Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 5° 41° 6° 42°AQI 30🚕2h$6,114 / mo27MbpsInterlaken is in an absolutely stunning area, and it's an outdoor lover's paradise. It's well connected via train, bus, and ferry boat, which makes it so easy to get around to anywhere in the country. Extremely clean. Almost everyone speaks English. Lots of young people in this area who visited once and then came back to live because they loved it so much. If you make it to Interlaken, make sure you go into Lauterbrunnen for the most stunning views and villages.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 3° 38°AQI 27🚕3h$7,484 / mo25Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 4° 39°AQI 26🚕3h$6,577 / mo41MbpsI stayed 4 months in Strasbourg. The city is very pleasant, the architecture is nice, there are lots of places to stay and chill out on the weekend or before/after work. I strongly advise to live in the city center surrounded by a very nice river, which is not very big but very convenient because everything is less than 10 minutes away by foot. The airbnb are not affordable but are in the average of the French cities. I got away with 870 euros for a studio the first month via airbnb and then
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 23✈️12min$4,091 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 34✈️12min$7,631 / mo29Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 6° 43°AQI 40✈️13min$4,196 / mo51Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 42°AQI 21✈️14min$6,094 / mo29Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 34✈️14min$3,115 / mo14Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 5° 41° 7° 45°AQI 29✈️15min$3,270 / mo55Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 34✈️16min$4,526 / mo14MbpsGreat place in summer if you love the mountains/adventure/hiking. Quite pricey tho. The Ski Locker is the recommended co-working, very international, great vibe for well-focused work.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels -1° 30° 0° 31°AQI 132😷✈️17min$5,318 / mo24MbpsI've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 26✈️54min$3,955 / mo51MbpsI was in Munich for 9 months and couldn't get used to the city. It's actually a small town for old and rich people. The flair is not international, but terribly German-conservative. There is neither an interesting start-up nor a tech community. Many people are unfriendly when you speak English. The leisure activities outside Munich (nature) are nice, unfortunately there is not much going on in the city compared to London, Berlin or Barcelona. In Germany, everyone seems to want to go to Berlin, s
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️19min$4,222 / mo51MbpsHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 29✈️1h$5,325 / mo16MbpsI'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 6✈️2h$3,484 / mo31MbpsA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 5° 41° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️49min$6,630 / mo14MbpsDidn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 34✈️17min$6,358 / mo13MbpsLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 42✈️39min$5,503 / mo19MbpsDubai is good if you’ve figured out a way to pay 0 income tax and live in 2 places (away doing vacations during the summer) - bonus if you don’t spend money on alcohol. Nightlife is amazing, especially if you’re a woman. Free unlimited drinks for ladies, open bar, no catch, in two clubs in Media One Tower on Thursday. There is no place in the world that offers this. My female friends love Dubai because of these types of deals lol. The easiest way to waste money here is by buying drinks.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 114😷✈️6h$3,658 / mo6MbpsJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 34✈️2h$4,687 / mo21MbpsExtremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 2° 36° 5° 41°AQI 17✈️47min$4,953 / mo15MbpsAs an expat in Geneva since 5years now, I'll recommend Lausanne or Zurich before Geneva. French Swiss are slow to make business with and have a lot of bureaucracy.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 10✈️18min$6,753 / mo29MbpsNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 53✈️1h$5,483 / mo21MbpsI was in Munich for 9 months and couldn't get used to the city. It's actually a small town for old and rich people. The flair is not international, but terribly German-conservative. There is neither an interesting start-up nor a tech community. Many people are unfriendly when you speak English. The leisure activities outside Munich (nature) are nice, unfortunately there is not much going on in the city compared to London, Berlin or Barcelona. In Germany, everyone seems to want to go to Berlin, s
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️19min$4,222 / mo🌇 Also went here233 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 42✈️39min$5,503 / mo🌇 Also went here397 peopleI visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 23✈️42min$3,282 / mo🌇 Also went here312 peopleExtremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 2° 36° 5° 41°AQI 17✈️47min$4,953 / mo🌇 Also went here276 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 5° 41° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️49min$6,630 / mo🌇 Also went here430 peopleI've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 26✈️54min$3,955 / mo🌇 Also went here431 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 29✈️1h$5,325 / mo🌇 Also went here414 peopleStayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 72✈️1h$2,380 / mo🌇 Also went here264 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 53✈️1h$5,483 / mo🌇 Also went here393 peopleJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 34✈️2h$4,687 / mo🌇 Also went here254 peopleI'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 6✈️2h$3,484 / mo🌇 Also went here385 peopleTaxis in Istanbul are a big problem even for locals. Public transport is convenient and comfortable. If you need to call a taxi, I recommend using an app. "Bitaksi" can be used. Agree with the taxi driver using google translate and negotiate in advance if necessary. Always make public transportation your first choice. There are millions of refugees in this city against a registered population of 15 million. A significant number of asylum seekers do not have any registered documents and this cre
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 24✈️2h$2,201 / mo🌇 Also went here265 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 43✈️8h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here311 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 33° 91°🥵AQI 178😷✈️12h$2,190 / mo🌇 Also went here335 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 21✈️14h$5,048 / mo🌇 Also went here243 people
