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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 103 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 👌 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 | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 23 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (85%) = feels 30°C 86°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 40 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 3.05 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LKR 100,000 = USD 305 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Natural Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 5% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 780,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,910 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | La Mudi |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Sri Lankan Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,258 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $773 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,233 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $352 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $385 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,614 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $175 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $137,139 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $18 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $53 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $237 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $311 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $1 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Marijuana is illegal
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
2577° warm |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
2984° warm |
2984° warm |
2984° warm |
2984° warm |
2984° warm |
2577° warm |
3188° hot |
| Real (median) |
2577°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2781°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2577°
warm |
2780°
warm |
| Humidity |
nice 90% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 87% |
nice 84% |
nice 85% |
nice 84% |
nice 83% |
nice 88% |
nice 92% |
sweaty 87% |
| Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
| Rain |
rainy 88mm |
dry 42mm |
rainy 131mm |
rainy 195mm |
rainy 165mm |
rainy 58mm |
rainy 99mm |
rainy 116mm |
rainy 133mm |
rainy 267mm |
rainy 366mm |
rainy 94mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 64% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 66% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 84% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 89% |
cloudy 85% |
cloudy 84% |
cloudy 85% |
cloudy 70% |
| Sun |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 975 people | 1,467 people | 975 people | 900 people | 750 people | 800 people | 960 people | 600 people | 960 people | 800 people | 1,000 people | 900 people |
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