| 🎒 Nomad Score™ |
2.87/5 (Rank #745)
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| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Bad |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score |
0% is nomad here
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| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,936 / mo
|
| 📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 12 Mbps (avg)
|
| 😝 Fun |
Okay |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 27°C80°F (feels 32°C90°F)
|
| 💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 91%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
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| 💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Good: 38 US AQI
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| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 80 US AQI
|
| 👌 Safety |
Great
|
| 👩 Safe for women |
Good |
| 🌈 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 |
| 😤 People density |
🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (1 per 15x15m)
|
| 🚶 Walkability |
Great |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Great |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Good |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
12 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Suzhou is fast averaging 96 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~12 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (91%) = feels 32°C 90°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 38 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 81 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
|
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Kalerm Company |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Dio Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Pingjiangfu Suzhou |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 79% 👱♀️ 21% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | FullHome |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Singhealth Medical Clinic |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,936 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,434 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,463 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $989 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $465 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,794 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $601 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $370,502 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $22 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $59 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $168 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $36,309 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ 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) |
643° cold |
1254° cool |
1254° cool |
1864° cool |
2475° warm |
3391° hot |
3799° hot |
38100° hot |
3290° hot |
2170° mild |
1661° cool |
1152° cool |
| Real (median) |
745°
cold |
1254°
cool |
1355°
cool |
1864°
cool |
2475°
warm |
2983°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2068°
mild |
1661°
cool |
1253°
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 67% |
damp 73% |
damp 78% |
nice 67% |
nice 72% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 77% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 78% |
nice 72% |
nice 65% |
nice 59% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 9mm |
dry 49mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 58mm |
rainy 147mm |
rainy 150mm |
rainy 175mm |
rainy 167mm |
rainy 58mm |
rainy 71mm |
dry 45mm |
dry 3mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 34% |
pockets 41% |
cloudy 58% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 59% |
pockets 50% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 39% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 20% |
| Air quality |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 121 US AQI |
bad 123 US AQI |
bad 115 US AQI |
okay 97 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 65 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
| Remote workers | 600 people | 1,200 people | 800 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 900 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people |
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