| 🎒 Nomad Score™ |
3.07/5 (Rank #652)
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| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Bad |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score |
0% is nomad here
|
| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,746 / mo
|
| 📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 9 Mbps (avg)
|
| 😝 Fun |
Bad |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 28°C82°F (feels 31°C88°F)
|
| 💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 73%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) |
😐 Moderate: 70 US AQI
|
| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 132 US AQI
|
| 👌 Safety |
Good
|
| 👩 Safe for women |
Okay |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
| 🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
| 🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
| 🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
| ⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
| 🌊 Resilience to climate change |
Good
|
| 💰 Income level* |
Very poor:
$677 / mo
|
| 🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
| 🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Great |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 🏥 Hospitals |
Bad |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
9 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Luoyang is fast averaging 72 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~9 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 31°C 88°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 70 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 133 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
|
| 💸 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 | 1,700,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $1,746 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,081 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,600 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $457 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,111 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,536 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $725 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $141,201 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $83 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $74 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ 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) |
337° cold |
439° cold |
1254° cool |
1763° cool |
2475° warm |
3086° warm |
3391° hot |
2984° warm |
2373° mild |
1661° cool |
846° cold |
541° cold |
| Real (median) |
439°
very cold |
439°
very cold |
1254°
cool |
1763°
cool |
2476°
warm |
2883°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2780°
warm |
2373°
mild |
1661°
cool |
847°
cold |
642°
very cold |
| Humidity |
nice 48% |
nice 49% |
nice 58% |
nice 55% |
nice 49% |
nice 55% |
sweaty 72% |
sweaty 74% |
nice 74% |
nice 67% |
nice 56% |
nice 47% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 4mm |
dry 18mm |
dry 24mm |
dry 44mm |
dry 38mm |
dry 48mm |
rainy 176mm |
rainy 165mm |
rainy 107mm |
rainy 54mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 8mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 53% |
pockets 37% |
cloudy 65% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 75% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 59% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 42% |
| Air quality |
bad 198 US AQI |
bad 181 US AQI |
bad 168 US AQI |
bad 156 US AQI |
bad 145 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
bad 127 US AQI |
bad 129 US AQI |
bad 126 US AQI |
bad 149 US AQI |
bad 169 US AQI |
bad 159 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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