⭐️ Total score |
2.09/5 (Rank #984)
|
👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,336 / mo
|
📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 5 Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 33°C91°F (feels 43°C109°F)
|
💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 71%
|
❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
|
💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Good: 50 US AQI
|
💨 Air quality (annual) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 110 US AQI
|
👌 Safety |
Great
|
👩 Safe for women |
Okay |
🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
|
🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) |
5 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Guilin is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 33°C 91°F + 🥵 Sweaty (71%) = feels 43°C 109°F
|
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 50 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 111 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.39 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 139 |
💸 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 |
📸 Visitors per year | 2,531,500 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 48,516 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 96% 👱♀️ 4% |
⛪️ 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 | $1,336 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $792 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,029 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $580 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,095 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $870 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $444 / month |
🏠 Median home price | $124,992 |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $51 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $29 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $152 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid 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 (median) | 12°C / 54°F cool | 11°C / 52°F cool | 16°C / 61°F cool | 20°C / 68°F mild | 25°C / 77°F warm | 33°C / 91°F hot | 38°C / 100°F hot | 38°C / 100°F hot | 35°C / 95°F hot | 22°C / 72°F mild | 17°C / 63°F cool | 14°C / 57°F cool |
Real (median) |
12°C / 54°F
cool |
11°C / 52°F
cool |
16°C / 60°F
cool |
20°C / 67°F
mild |
25°C / 77°F
warm |
28°C / 82°F
very warm |
31°C / 87°F
hot |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
30°C / 85°F
very warm |
22°C / 71°F
mild |
17°C / 63°F
cool |
14°C / 57°F
cool |
Humidity |
nice 55% |
damp 76% |
damp 91% |
nice 95% |
nice 96% |
sweaty 90% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 75% |
nice 74% |
damp 73% |
nice 68% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain |
dry 10mm |
rainy 106mm |
rainy 162mm |
rainy 207mm |
rainy 349mm |
rainy 371mm |
rainy 238mm |
rainy 151mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 74mm |
rainy 92mm |
dry 6mm |
Cloud |
pockets 38% |
pockets 34% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 49% |
pockets 48% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 43% |
pockets 25% |
pockets 42% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 28% |
Air quality |
bad 138 US AQI |
bad 123 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
okay 98 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 102 US AQI |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 132 US AQI |
Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 300 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people |
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