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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 3 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 🤯 Overcrowding 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 | |
| 🌊 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 | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
9 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Datong is fast averaging 72 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~9 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (82%) = feels 23°C 73°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 65 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 54 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.49 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 149 |
| 💸 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 | 1,600,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $2,625 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,539 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,657 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $759 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,049 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,522 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $476 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $126,447 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $50 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $74 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $18 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Expensive
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ 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
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
-523° freezing |
337° cold |
948° cold |
1254° cool |
2068° mild |
2577° warm |
2984° warm |
2577° warm |
2170° mild |
1152° cool |
236° cold |
-327° freezing |
| Real (median) |
-328°
freezing |
540°
very cold |
1049°
cold |
1254°
cool |
1966°
mild |
2576°
warm |
2781°
warm |
2577°
warm |
2170°
mild |
1152°
cool |
337°
very cold |
-131°
freezing |
| Humidity |
nice 52% |
nice 48% |
nice 44% |
nice 40% |
nice 37% |
nice 45% |
nice 62% |
nice 62% |
nice 61% |
nice 53% |
nice 58% |
nice 52% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 0mm |
dry 5mm |
dry 19mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 40mm |
rainy 66mm |
rainy 96mm |
rainy 56mm |
dry 40mm |
dry 35mm |
dry 17mm |
dry 0mm |
| Cloud |
clear 9% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 46% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 53% |
cloudy 61% |
cloudy 63% |
pockets 49% |
cloudy 51% |
pockets 42% |
pockets 15% |
clear 6% |
| Air quality |
bad 126 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
bad 101 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 51 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
clean 44 US AQI |
clean 47 US AQI |
okay 67 US AQI |
okay 92 US AQI |
bad 132 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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