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| ⭐️ Total score | 8 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (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 | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| ✈️ Airline scores* | |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* | |
| 😄 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 |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 6 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Yiwu is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 19°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (79%) = feels 19°C 66°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 91 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.40 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 140 |
| 💸 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 | 910,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 88% 👱♀️ 13% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $1,256 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $650 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,616 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $462 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,052 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $829 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $253 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $27 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $106 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $16,848 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very 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
❌ Marijuana is illegal
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27° warm |
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34° hot |
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90
32° hot |
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21° mild |
63
17° cool |
55
13° cool |
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| Humidity |
nice 32% |
nice 40% |
nice 43% |
nice 41% |
nice 42% |
nice 46% |
nice 43% |
nice 43% |
nice 39% |
nice 39% |
nice 36% |
nice 34% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 10mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 139mm |
rainy 106mm |
rainy 176mm |
rainy 304mm |
rainy 150mm |
rainy 167mm |
rainy 90mm |
rainy 56mm |
rainy 76mm |
dry 19mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 22% |
pockets 49% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 61% |
cloudy 60% |
cloudy 63% |
cloudy 58% |
cloudy 50% |
pockets 37% |
cloudy 52% |
pockets 49% |
pockets 30% |
| Air quality |
bad 120 US AQI |
bad 118 US AQI |
bad 126 US AQI |
bad 111 US AQI |
okay 98 US AQI |
okay 82 US AQI |
okay 67 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 119 US AQI |
bad 148 US AQI |
| Sun |
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Ubud is dead. I plan to stay here for a month starting today, but my heart is already breaking. The traffic is too much. The center of Ubud is always crowded with cars and motorcycles, not a very relaxing environment. It's a pity.
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