| ⭐️ Total score |
2.05/5 (Rank #1073)
|
| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Bad |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,553 / mo
|
| 📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 3 Mbps (avg)
|
| 😝 Fun |
Bad |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Too cold: 12°C53°F (feels 13°C55°F)
|
| 💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 41%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 128 US AQI
|
| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 77 US AQI
|
| 👌 Safety |
Great
|
| 👩 Safe for women |
Okay |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
| 🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
| 👮♀️ 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 |
Bad |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Shaoxing is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 12°C 53°F + 😊 Comfy (41%) = feels 13°C 55°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 128 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 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 | 630,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 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 | $1,553 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $977 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,864 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $533 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $868 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,926 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $268 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $266,674 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $63 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $130 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $19,478 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / 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
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ 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
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) | 7°C / 45°F cold | 7°C / 45°F cold | 13°C / 55°F cool | 18°C / 64°F cool | 24°C / 75°F warm | 30°C / 86°F warm | 39°C / 102°F hot | 37°C / 99°F hot | 30°C / 86°F warm | 20°C / 68°F mild | 15°C / 59°F cool | 10°C / 50°F cold |
| Real (median) |
7°C / 44°F
cold |
7°C / 45°F
cold |
13°C / 55°F
cool |
18°C / 64°F
cool |
24°C / 75°F
warm |
26°C / 79°F
warm |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
30°C / 85°F
very warm |
27°C / 80°F
warm |
20°C / 67°F
mild |
15°C / 58°F
cool |
10°C / 49°F
cold |
| Humidity |
nice 59% |
damp 79% |
damp 80% |
nice 75% |
nice 85% |
nice 93% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 79% |
damp 73% |
nice 65% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 10mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 143mm |
rainy 64mm |
rainy 197mm |
rainy 295mm |
rainy 181mm |
rainy 161mm |
rainy 128mm |
rainy 69mm |
rainy 68mm |
dry 7mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 24% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 36% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 17% |
| Air quality |
bad 125 US AQI |
bad 113 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
okay 97 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
| Sun |
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avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
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| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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