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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 5 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* | |
| 🏥 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) |
10 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Foshan is fast averaging 80 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~10 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (77%) = feels 37°C 99°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 86 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 98 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 1.49 |
| 🏧 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 coworking space | Regus |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,000,000 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 | $1,363 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $762 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,772 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $506 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,114 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,019 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $298 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $193,732 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $33 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $75 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $23,049 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ 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) |
2068° mild |
2475° warm |
2577° warm |
2882° warm |
46115° scorching |
42108° scorching |
46115° scorching |
46115° scorching |
44111° scorching |
2882° warm |
2272° mild |
2068° mild |
| Real (median) |
2067°
mild |
2475°
warm |
2577°
warm |
2679°
warm |
3391°
hot |
3188°
hot |
3391°
hot |
3290°
hot |
3290°
hot |
2679°
warm |
2272°
mild |
1966°
mild |
| Humidity |
nice 58% |
nice 67% |
nice 74% |
nice 74% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 75% |
nice 67% |
nice 65% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 4mm |
rainy 69mm |
rainy 50mm |
rainy 100mm |
rainy 178mm |
rainy 273mm |
rainy 131mm |
rainy 243mm |
rainy 89mm |
rainy 62mm |
dry 5mm |
dry 45mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 46% |
pockets 20% |
cloudy 77% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 81% |
cloudy 89% |
cloudy 77% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 65% |
pockets 50% |
cloudy 59% |
pockets 49% |
| Air quality |
bad 123 US AQI |
bad 106 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
okay 85 US AQI |
okay 74 US AQI |
okay 72 US AQI |
okay 86 US AQI |
okay 98 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
bad 127 US AQI |
bad 117 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 600 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people |
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