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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 3 reviews |
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| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👩 Safe for women | |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ | |
| 🤮 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* | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Middle East |
| 🚩 Country | Iraq |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 17°C 63°F + 💦 Damp (100%) = feels 17°C 63°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 80 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10,000 IQD in USD | USD 7.63 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | IQD 100,000 = USD 76 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,200,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,301 / year |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Iraqi Airways |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Iraqi Airways |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,445 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,338 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,312 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $375 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,096 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,394 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $970 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $53,435 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $98 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $111 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $212 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $808 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $10 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $8 / trip |
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Extremely hot in the summer
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
1763° cool |
1966° mild |
2475° warm |
2882° warm |
3493° hot |
3799° hot |
40104° hot |
40104° hot |
3595° hot |
2984° warm |
2373° mild |
1864° cool |
| Real (median) |
1762°
cool |
1864°
cool |
2474°
warm |
3187°
hot |
3799°
hot |
41105°
scorching |
43109°
scorching |
42108°
scorching |
3799°
hot |
3289°
hot |
2373°
mild |
1763°
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 46% |
nice 39% |
too dry 28% |
too dry 18% |
too dry 13% |
too dry 8% |
too dry 10% |
too dry 11% |
too dry 14% |
too dry 16% |
nice 39% |
nice 48% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 1mm |
dry 11mm |
dry 1mm |
dry 6mm |
dry 2mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 2mm |
dry 31mm |
| Cloud |
clear 8% |
pockets 15% |
clear 9% |
pockets 18% |
clear 2% |
clear 0% |
clear 1% |
clear 0% |
clear 0% |
clear 2% |
pockets 10% |
pockets 26% |
| Air quality |
okay 61 US AQI |
okay 80* US AQI |
okay 80* US AQI |
okay 80* US AQI |
okay 80* US AQI |
okay 85 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 90 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 60 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 12 UVI |
avoid sun 12 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
| Remote workers | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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