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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 2 reviews |
| 👍 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 | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
91 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Shantou is fast averaging 728 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~91 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (89%) = feels 40°C 104°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 77 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 1.49 |
| 🏧 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 | Jinguan Hotel |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Regency Grand Hotel |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | GreenTree Alliance Hotel |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 3,800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,225 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $784 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,733 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $495 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $466 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,343 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $298 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $178,534 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $22 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $44 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $204 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $22,317 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $7 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid 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) |
1661° cool |
1864° cool |
1966° mild |
2272° mild |
3290° hot |
3391° hot |
3595° hot |
3391° hot |
3595° hot |
3086° warm |
2272° mild |
1966° mild |
| Real (median) |
1661°
cool |
1864°
cool |
1966°
mild |
2272°
mild |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2781°
warm |
2272°
mild |
1966°
mild |
| Humidity |
damp 76% |
nice 79% |
nice 79% |
nice 81% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 89% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 78% |
nice 75% |
nice 75% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 2mm |
dry 46mm |
dry 10mm |
dry 11mm |
rainy 94mm |
rainy 231mm |
rainy 110mm |
rainy 221mm |
rainy 52mm |
rainy 59mm |
dry 1mm |
dry 35mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 24% |
pockets 17% |
pockets 47% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 76% |
cloudy 85% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 67% |
pockets 41% |
cloudy 50% |
cloudy 52% |
cloudy 54% |
| Air quality |
okay 93 US AQI |
okay 96 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
okay 80 US AQI |
okay 59 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
okay 66 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 87 US AQI |
okay 96 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people |
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