| 🎒 Nomad Score™ |
2.89/5 (Rank #843)
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| ❤️ Liked by members |
👍1 liked it 👎1 disliked it
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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: $1,331 / mo
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| 📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 18 Mbps (avg)
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| 😝 Fun |
Okay |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 30°C86°F (feels 38°C100°F)
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| 💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 81%
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| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😊 High: 80%
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| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 39 US AQI
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| 👌 Safety |
Okay
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| 👩 Safe for women |
Okay |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
| 🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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| 🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
| 🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
| ⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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| 💰 Income level* |
Low:
$792 / mo
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| 🙊 English speaking* |
Okay |
| 🚶 Walkability |
Great |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Okay |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Malaysia |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 18 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (81%) = feels 38°C 100°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 40 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 MYR in USD | USD 2.54 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MYR 1,000 = USD 254 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | San Francisco Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Utopia Workspaces |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 5% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 870,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $9,508 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Mahkota Medical Centre |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,331 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,010 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,608 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $745 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $482 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,265 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $508 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $88,866 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $23 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $41 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $184 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,027 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Very affordable
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm all year
✅ Friendly people
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Feels abandoned or disjointed
❌ Lacks nightlife and entrepreneurial communities
❌ Not walkable
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Nomads.com members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomads.com members right now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
3290° hot |
3799° hot |
39102° hot |
3697° hot |
3697° hot |
3595° hot |
3595° hot |
3391° hot |
3595° hot |
3595° hot |
3697° hot |
3697° hot |
| Real (median) |
2882°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 86% |
| Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
| Rain |
rainy 79mm |
dry 11mm |
rainy 159mm |
rainy 231mm |
rainy 244mm |
rainy 202mm |
rainy 226mm |
rainy 203mm |
rainy 198mm |
rainy 238mm |
rainy 285mm |
rainy 240mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 53% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 47% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 55% |
pockets 49% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 54% |
| Air quality |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 39 US AQI |
clean 38 US AQI |
clean 30 US AQI |
clean 27 US AQI |
clean 30 US AQI |
clean 40 US AQI |
okay 66 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 54 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
clean 36 US AQI |
| Sun |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,050 people | 750 people | 1,000 people | 1,114 people | 800 people | 750 people | 960 people | 800 people | 800 people | 900 people | 943 people | 1,050 people |
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