| ⭐️ Total score |
2.39/5 (Rank #1105)
|
| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Bad |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score |
0% is nomad here
|
| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,570 / mo
|
| 📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 9 Mbps (avg)
|
| 😝 Fun |
Bad |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Too cold: 6°C44°F (feels 5°C41°F)
|
| 💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 55%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy : 159 US AQI
|
| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 77 US AQI
|
| 👌 Safety |
Great
|
| 👩 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
|
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
| 💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
|
| 🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
| 🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
| ❄️ 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 Shaoxing is fast averaging 72 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~9 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 6°C 44°F + 😊 Comfy (55%) = feels 5°C 41°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 159 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
|
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.43 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 143 |
| 💸 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 | 630,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $1,570 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $988 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,885 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $538 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $877 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,947 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $271 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $268,905 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $64 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $132 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $19,691 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ 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) | 7°C / 45°F cold | 7°C / 45°F cold | 13°C / 55°F cool | 18°C / 64°F cool | 24°C / 75°F warm | 30°C / 86°F warm | 39°C / 102°F hot | 37°C / 99°F hot | 30°C / 86°F warm | 20°C / 68°F mild | 15°C / 59°F cool | 10°C / 50°F cold |
| Real (median) |
7°C / 44°F
cold |
7°C / 45°F
cold |
13°C / 55°F
cool |
18°C / 64°F
cool |
24°C / 75°F
warm |
26°C / 79°F
warm |
30°C / 86°F
very warm |
30°C / 85°F
very warm |
27°C / 80°F
warm |
20°C / 67°F
mild |
15°C / 58°F
cool |
10°C / 49°F
cold |
| Humidity |
nice 59% |
damp 79% |
damp 80% |
nice 75% |
nice 85% |
nice 93% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 79% |
damp 73% |
nice 65% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 10mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 143mm |
rainy 64mm |
rainy 197mm |
rainy 295mm |
rainy 181mm |
rainy 161mm |
rainy 128mm |
rainy 69mm |
rainy 68mm |
dry 7mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 24% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 36% |
pockets 35% |
pockets 17% |
| Air quality |
bad 125 US AQI |
bad 113 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
okay 97 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
|
|
||||||||||||
If you'd like to filter destinations based on their climate, try Nomads.com's Climate Finder
Based on Shaoxing's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌫 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46° AQI 132 😷 🚕2h $1,491 / mo 7 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 6° 43° 7° 45° 🚕3h $1,900 / mo 7 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 4° 39° 5° 41° AQI 91 😷 🚕3h $1,833 / mo 5 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌫 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45° 🚕3h $1,210 / mo 6 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 6° 43° 7° 44° AQI 93 😷 🚕3h $2,765 / mo 10 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 42° AQI 87 😷 🚕4h $3,642 / mo 7 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 43° AQI 102 😷 ✈️12min $1,920 / mo 10 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 44° ✈️12min $2,331 / mo 7 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47° ✈️13min $1,586 / mo 3 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 44° AQI 74 😷 ✈️14min $1,970 / mo 8 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 42° AQI 91 😷 ✈️14min $1,377 / mo 5 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 42° ✈️15min $1,678 / mo 7 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌤 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83° 🥵 ✈️26h $1,820 / mo 11 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Extremely expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌫 Feels -2° 28° 1° 33° AQI 51 😷 ✈️12h $7,230 / mo 33 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels -2° 28° 0° 32° AQI 21 ✈️2h $2,493 / mo 10 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 AQI 45 ✈️3h $1,046 / mo 12 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Extremely expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43° AQI 72 😷 ✈️13h $5,576 / mo 41 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌫 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27° AQI 68 😷 ✈️1h $2,496 / mo 35 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Very expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels -7° 19° -4° 24° AQI 70 😷 ✈️11h $4,139 / mo 42 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Very expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41° AQI 42 ✈️14h $4,372 / mo 46 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 44° AQI 74 😷 ✈️14min $1,970 / mo 8 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76° ✈️26h $2,865 / mo 15 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62° ✈️24h $2,383 / mo 10 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 43° AQI 102 😷 ✈️12min $1,920 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 44° AQI 74 😷 ✈️14min $1,970 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌫 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27° AQI 68 😷 ✈️1h $2,496 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59° ✈️1h $1,419 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63° ✈️1h $2,794 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels -2° 28° 0° 32° AQI 21 ✈️2h $2,493 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌫 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52° AQI 158 😷 ✈️2h $1,415 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌦 Feels 10° 50° 10° 51° AQI 68 😷 ✈️3h $3,117 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 29° 84° 27° 80° AQI 500 😷 ✈️6h $1,234 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Very expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels -7° 19° -4° 24° AQI 70 😷 ✈️11h $4,139 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌤 Feels -4° 25° -1° 31° AQI 55 😷 ✈️11h $3,646 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Extremely expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌫 Feels -2° 28° 1° 33° AQI 51 😷 ✈️12h $7,230 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Extremely expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels -3° 27° 1° 34° AQI 46 ✈️12h $5,504 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Extremely expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌤 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42° ✈️16h $7,093 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70° ✈️17h $3,967 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×
Can't login? See the FAQ

















By signing up, you agree to our terms of service and community guidelines.
One-time-payment: $39.98 $19.99 💫 0% off
Billed once. Then never again
One-time-payment: $98 $49 💫 50% off
Billed once. Then never again
Nomads.com members
work remotely at









💖 Thanks for signing up! I hope you like my site. I put a lot of effort into making it for years!
📬 First, please go to your email and click the confirm link first to verify your email address
⛔️ Check your spam folder if you can't find it, because we got reports it ends up there sometimes
💌 After you confirm your email we'll send you an email with more info
👩💻 You can start using Nomads.com's member-only features now!
