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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 26 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👩 Safe for women | |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Resilience 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 | 10 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 36°C 97°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 33 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 1,000 LKR in USD | USD 3.01 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LKR 100,000 = USD 301 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Bites |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 810,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,002 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $942 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $601 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for couple | $1,225 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $216 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $62 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $888 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,118 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $605 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $225,451 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $42 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $69 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $11 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $0 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ 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 |
3188° hot |
3290° hot |
3595° hot |
38100° hot |
3799° hot |
3697° hot |
3493° hot |
3799° hot |
3595° hot |
3391° hot |
3188° hot |
| Real (median) |
2781°
warm |
2781°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2781°
warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 88% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 77% |
sweaty 75% |
sweaty 76% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 86% |
| Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
| Rain |
rainy 166mm |
rainy 92mm |
rainy 76mm |
rainy 97mm |
rainy 53mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 24mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 36mm |
rainy 158mm |
rainy 275mm |
rainy 155mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 62% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 65% |
cloudy 77% |
cloudy 75% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 79% |
cloudy 79% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 67% |
| Sun |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 800 people | 900 people | 800 people | 600 people | 800 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people |
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