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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 276 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 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* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Colombia |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 31°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 37°C 99°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 53 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V 60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10,000 COP in USD | USD 3.02 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | COP 1,000,000 = USD 302 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Lulo |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| ♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 440,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,562 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Falabella |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Copa Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Avianca |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Instituto del Corazón de Santa Marta |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,482 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,089 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for couple | $3,395 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,237 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,211 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $798 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,760 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,057 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $114,735 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $123 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $239 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $10,568 / year |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $8 / trip |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomads.com members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be 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) |
2984° warm |
3086° warm |
2984° warm |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3391° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
3290° hot |
| Real (median) |
2780°
warm |
2781°
very warm |
2780°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2883°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
| Humidity |
sweaty 75% |
sweaty 73% |
sweaty 73% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 79% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 4mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 6mm |
dry 36mm |
rainy 74mm |
rainy 107mm |
rainy 83mm |
rainy 90mm |
rainy 147mm |
rainy 227mm |
rainy 85mm |
dry 26mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 26% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 35% |
cloudy 66% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 63% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 76% |
cloudy 72% |
cloudy 58% |
pockets 43% |
| Air quality |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 61 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
| Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 11 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 2,455 people | 2,267 people | 1,900 people | 2,100 people | 1,800 people | 975 people | 1,600 people | 1,091 people | 1,050 people | 1,114 people | 1,725 people | 1,691 people |
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