| 🎒 Nomad Score™ |
3.29/5 (Rank #341)
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| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Bad |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score |
8% is nomad here
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| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,225 / mo
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| 📡 Internet |
🚀 Super fast: 104 Mbps (avg)
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| 😝 Fun |
Okay |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 31°C87°F (feels 41°C106°F)
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| 💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 87%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
🥵 Low: 37%
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| 💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Good: 41 US AQI
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| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 41 US AQI
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| 👌 Safety |
Okay
|
| 👩 Safe for women |
Okay |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Great |
| 🤮 Food safety* |
Bad
|
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
|
| 🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
| 🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
| ⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
| 🌊 Resilience to climate change |
Okay
|
| 💰 Income level* |
Very poor:
$671 / mo
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| 🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
| 🚶 Walkability |
Okay |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Great |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Good |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Good |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Thailand |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 104 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 31°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (87%) = feels 41°C 106°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 41 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 42 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.96 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 296 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Smiling Dog Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍11% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 8,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,057 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 85% 👱♀️ 15% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,225 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $783 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,755 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $501 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $718 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $356 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $207,524 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $34 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $113 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,188 / year |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
✅ Good base for exploring beaches and islands
✅ Basic services available (restaurants, shops, markets)
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ Unreliable internet
❌ Few places to work remotely
❌ Not many digital nomads
❌ Underdeveloped
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
3290° hot |
3493° hot |
3493° hot |
3493° hot |
3595° hot |
3595° hot |
3595° hot |
3290° hot |
3391° hot |
3391° hot |
3391° hot |
3290° hot |
| Real (median) |
2882°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 77% |
sweaty 80% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 83% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 47mm |
dry 18mm |
rainy 69mm |
rainy 129mm |
rainy 269mm |
rainy 225mm |
rainy 280mm |
rainy 277mm |
rainy 285mm |
rainy 304mm |
rainy 178mm |
rainy 87mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 59% |
pockets 44% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 90% |
cloudy 87% |
overcast 91% |
cloudy 89% |
overcast 92% |
cloudy 90% |
cloudy 89% |
cloudy 68% |
| Air quality |
clean 50 US AQI |
clean 42* US AQI |
clean 42* US AQI |
clean 42* US AQI |
clean 42* US AQI |
clean 42 US AQI |
clean 44 US AQI |
clean 34 US AQI |
clean 42 US AQI |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 43 US AQI |
okay 55 US AQI |
| Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 2,150 people | 1,980 people | 1,855 people | 733 people | 1,200 people | 600 people | 1,000 people | 800 people | 1,000 people | 1,029 people | 1,275 people | 2,150 people |
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