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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 426 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* | |
| 🚶 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 | Thailand |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 21 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 30°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (78%) = feels 35°C 95°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 72 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 48 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.96 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 296 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Bake n' Brew |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 7,313,500 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 140,163 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 240,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,057 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 89% 👱♀️ 11% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Prakard |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Bangkok Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,535 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,259 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,534 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $724 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $486 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,131 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $572 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $136,373 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $23 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $70 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $119 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $14,241 / year |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
✅ Very affordable
✅ Very safe
✅ Good weather in peak season (Dec–Feb)
✅ Convenient ride-sharing apps
✅ Good mid-size city
✅ Affordable to live
✅ 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
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ Heavy Russian tourist presence
❌ Police crackdown can affect digital nomads
❌ Not ideal for women or people under 40
❌ Chaotic driving
❌ Noisy in many areas
❌ Limited shipping options from Western retailers
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Nomads.com members didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomads.com members right now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
3188° hot |
3799° hot |
3799° hot |
3799° hot |
41106° scorching |
41106° scorching |
38100° hot |
38100° hot |
3595° hot |
3595° hot |
3799° hot |
3391° hot |
| Real (median) |
2882°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
3188°
hot |
3188°
hot |
3086°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
3086°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 72% |
sweaty 77% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 72% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 4mm |
dry 29mm |
rainy 70mm |
rainy 96mm |
rainy 151mm |
rainy 138mm |
rainy 163mm |
rainy 182mm |
rainy 250mm |
rainy 228mm |
rainy 57mm |
dry 11mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 34% |
pockets 25% |
pockets 44% |
cloudy 60% |
cloudy 84% |
overcast 90% |
overcast 93% |
overcast 93% |
overcast 95% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 72% |
cloudy 51% |
| Air quality |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
clean 47 US AQI |
clean 46 US AQI |
clean 34 US AQI |
clean 36 US AQI |
clean 41 US AQI |
clean 48 US AQI |
okay 59 US AQI |
okay 79 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
| Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 2,438 people | 2,760 people | 2,400 people | 2,400 people | 1,750 people | 1,680 people | 1,414 people | 3,000 people | 2,160 people | 2,509 people | 2,308 people | 4,543 people |
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