⭐️ Total score |
0.5/5 (Rank #1338)
|
👍 Quality of life score |
Bad |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,570 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 1 Mbps (avg)
|
😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 28°C82°F (feels 31°C88°F)
|
💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 77%
|
👌 Safety |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
|
👩 Safe for women |
Bad |
🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
🤮 Food safety* |
Okay
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
🧨 Conflict / political instability*
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Very low |
⚡️ Power grid |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$65 / mo
|
🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Great |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Africa |
🚩 Country | Mali |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (77%) = feels 31°C 88°F
|
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 1,000 XOF in USD | USD 1.77 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | XOF 100,000 = USD 177 |
☕️ Best coffee place | TAXI Bamako |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Donilab |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
📸 Visitors per year | 193,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 3,699 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 3,300,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $778 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Golden Life American Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,570 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $814 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,072 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $306 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,654 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,551 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $231 / month |
🏠 Median home price | $45,939 |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $77 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $71 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $0 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid 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+
❌ Marijuana is illegal
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels (median) | 25°C / 77°F warm | 27°C / 81°F warm | 30°C / 86°F warm | 35°C / 95°F hot | 37°C / 99°F hot | 36°C / 97°F hot | 32°C / 90°F hot | 30°C / 86°F warm | 32°C / 90°F hot | 33°C / 91°F hot | 28°C / 82°F warm | 25°C / 77°F warm |
Real (median) |
29°C / 83°F
very warm |
31°C / 87°F
hot |
34°C / 92°F
hot |
35°C / 95°F
hot |
34°C / 93°F
hot |
32°C / 90°F
hot |
29°C / 83°F
very warm |
27°C / 80°F
warm |
28°C / 82°F
very warm |
30°C / 85°F
very warm |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
28°C / 82°F
very warm |
Humidity |
too dry 10% |
too dry 10% |
too dry 14% |
too dry 29% |
nice 43% |
nice 55% |
sweaty 72% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 80% |
nice 65% |
too dry 24% |
too dry 13% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 2mm |
dry 7mm |
dry 34mm |
rainy 99mm |
rainy 239mm |
rainy 266mm |
rainy 191mm |
dry 49mm |
dry 1mm |
dry 0mm |
Cloud |
clear 6% |
pockets 13% |
pockets 19% |
pockets 31% |
pockets 39% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 39% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 20% |
Air quality |
bad 162 US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
clean 0** US AQI |
bad 174 US AQI |
Sun |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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