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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 266 reviews |
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| 👍 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* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 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 |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
7 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Guangzhou is fast averaging 56 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~7 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 25°C 77°F + 😊 Comfy (68%) = feels 25°C 77°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 90 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 84 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 1.50 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 150 |
| 💸 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 |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| 🪨 Water hardness | Moderately hard · 111 mg/L |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 9,075,500 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 173,932 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 27,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $13,862 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 14x14m (196m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Eastern Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | CanAm International Medical Centre |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,646 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $979 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for couple | $2,508 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,502 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $715 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $842 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,230 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $541 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $50,961 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $39 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $40 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $367 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $24,461 / year |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Kind people
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Nomads.com members liked going here
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Hard to get by with only English
❌ Difficult to navigate without Chinese
❌ Bar staff disinterested and looking down on foreigners
❌ Few foreigners outside CBD
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very hot in the summer
❌ Not many Nomads.com members right now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 |
2475° warm |
2882° warm |
47117° scorching |
43109° scorching |
47117° scorching |
47117° scorching |
46115° scorching |
2882° warm |
2272° mild |
2068° mild |
| Real (median) |
2067°
mild |
2475°
warm |
2475°
warm |
2678°
warm |
3391°
hot |
3188°
hot |
3391°
hot |
3290°
hot |
3391°
hot |
2679°
warm |
2272°
mild |
2067°
mild |
| Humidity |
nice 58% |
nice 66% |
nice 74% |
nice 75% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 88% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 81% |
nice 75% |
nice 66% |
nice 65% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 3mm |
rainy 72mm |
dry 48mm |
rainy 81mm |
rainy 200mm |
rainy 266mm |
rainy 125mm |
rainy 261mm |
rainy 111mm |
rainy 63mm |
dry 11mm |
dry 46mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 44% |
pockets 19% |
cloudy 75% |
cloudy 79% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 90% |
cloudy 78% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 63% |
pockets 49% |
cloudy 57% |
pockets 48% |
| Air quality |
bad 126 US AQI |
bad 106 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
okay 80 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 62 US AQI |
okay 71 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 112 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 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,457 people | 1,380 people | 1,200 people | 2,550 people | 1,740 people | 1,036 people | 1,800 people | 873 people | 1,015 people | 1,938 people | 1,800 people | 2,040 people |
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