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| ⭐️ Total score | 6 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 |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
3 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Xining is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 -12°C 10°F + 💦 Damp (94%) = feels -15°C 5°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 85 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 1.38 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
| 💸 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 | 850,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 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 | $1,378 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $966 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,771 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $792 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $708 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $955 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $545 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $33 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $31 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $144 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ 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
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ 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
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
23
-5° freezing |
0° freezing |
43
6° cold |
41
5° cold |
59
15° cool |
55
13° cool |
68
20° mild |
64
18° cool |
50
10° cold |
45
7° cold |
0° freezing |
25
-4° freezing |
| Real |
23
-5°
freezing |
32
0°
freezing |
43
6°
very cold |
41
5°
very cold |
58
15°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
68
20°
mild |
64
18°
cool |
50
10°
cold |
45
7°
cold |
32
0°
freezing |
26
-4°
freezing |
| Humidity |
too dry 14% |
too dry 13% |
too dry 17% |
too dry 26% |
too dry 23% |
nice 33% |
nice 31% |
nice 34% |
nice 34% |
nice 33% |
too dry 20% |
too dry 18% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 2mm |
dry 6mm |
dry 10mm |
dry 50mm |
dry 47mm |
rainy 80mm |
rainy 82mm |
rainy 60mm |
rainy 89mm |
dry 34mm |
dry 5mm |
dry 3mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 17% |
pockets 25% |
pockets 26% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 30% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 12% |
pockets 18% |
| Air quality |
bad 153 US AQI |
bad 138 US AQI |
bad 121 US AQI |
bad 120 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
bad 141 US AQI |
bad 160 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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