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| ⭐️ Total score | 4 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 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* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 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 | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
5 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Hefei 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 (75%) = feels 44°C 111°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 72 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 99 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 1.39 |
| 🏧 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 |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,700,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 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 | $1,133 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $761 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,830 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $523 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $595 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,063 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $358 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $191,353 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $35 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $132 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $7,661 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / 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
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ 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
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) | 7°C / 45°F cold | 13°C / 55°F cool | 12°C / 54°F cool | 19°C / 66°F mild | 28°C / 82°F warm | 38°C / 100°F hot | 41°C / 106°F scorching | 37°C / 99°F hot | 35°C / 95°F hot | 21°C / 70°F mild | 17°C / 63°F cool | 12°C / 54°F cool |
| Real (median) |
8°C / 46°F
cold |
13°C / 55°F
cool |
13°C / 55°F
cool |
18°C / 64°F
cool |
26°C / 78°F
warm |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
29°C / 84°F
very warm |
29°C / 84°F
very warm |
20°C / 68°F
mild |
16°C / 61°F
cool |
12°C / 53°F
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 60% |
nice 70% |
damp 79% |
nice 72% |
nice 78% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 94% |
sweaty 92% |
sweaty 82% |
nice 75% |
nice 62% |
nice 45% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 25mm |
dry 39mm |
rainy 82mm |
rainy 57mm |
rainy 130mm |
rainy 135mm |
rainy 193mm |
rainy 171mm |
dry 48mm |
rainy 54mm |
dry 40mm |
dry 9mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 36% |
pockets 38% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 58% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 54% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 31% |
pockets 21% |
| Air quality |
bad 160 US AQI |
bad 157 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 127 US AQI |
bad 148 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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