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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 121 reviews |
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| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
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| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 👌 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 | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Sri Lanka |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 28°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 34°C 93°F
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| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 1,000 LKR in USD | USD 2.99 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LKR 100,000 = USD 299 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Old Railway Cafe |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Lemongrass Cafe |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Nomad Trails Thalpe Station |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👎4% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 99,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,910 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 74% 👱♀️ 26% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Teaching Hospital Mahamodara |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,289 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $797 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $959 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $274 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $454 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,958 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $559 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $149,595 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $21 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $64 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $193 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $1,197 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $0 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Friendly people
✅ Great food options
✅ Fun things to do
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Unstable internet
❌ Frequent power outages
❌ Poor coffee scene
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Not many Nomads.com members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
3188° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3391° hot |
3391° hot |
3391° hot |
3290° hot |
3086° warm |
3391° hot |
3086° warm |
3290° hot |
| Real (median) |
2781°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2781°
warm |
2780°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2780°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 80% |
sweaty 80% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 83% |
| Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
| Rain |
dry 37mm |
rainy 72mm |
rainy 75mm |
rainy 157mm |
rainy 290mm |
rainy 280mm |
rainy 227mm |
rainy 219mm |
rainy 251mm |
rainy 273mm |
rainy 259mm |
rainy 157mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 76% |
cloudy 61% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 86% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 89% |
cloudy 86% |
cloudy 84% |
cloudy 87% |
cloudy 73% |
| Sun |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 975 people | 1,667 people | 975 people | 1,029 people | 600 people | 600 people | 1,320 people | 600 people | 600 people | 686 people | 750 people | 1,200 people |
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