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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 268 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* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 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 |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
10 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Shenzhen is fast averaging 80 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~10 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (81%) = feels 38°C 100°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 101 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 106 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Luohu |
| 🚕 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 coworking space | Archiposition |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 12,962,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 248,416 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 14,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 😤 crowded: 8x8m (64m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 90% 👱♀️ 10% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hong Kong Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
| 🏥 Best hospital | University of HK-Shenzhen |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,009 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,538 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,064 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $875 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $601 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,822 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $710 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $80,497 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $93 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $298 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $22,360 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $4 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Many Nomads.com members here all year round
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ 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) |
2068° mild |
2373° mild |
2577° warm |
3086° warm |
42108° scorching |
40104° hot |
42108° scorching |
39102° hot |
43109° scorching |
2882° warm |
2373° mild |
2170° mild |
| Real (median) |
2067°
mild |
2373°
mild |
2576°
warm |
2780°
warm |
3188°
hot |
3086°
very warm |
3188°
hot |
3086°
very warm |
3289°
hot |
2679°
warm |
2373°
mild |
2068°
mild |
| Humidity |
nice 65% |
nice 75% |
nice 79% |
sweaty 80% |
sweaty 84% |
sweaty 89% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 81% |
nice 76% |
nice 68% |
nice 70% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 1mm |
rainy 54mm |
dry 10mm |
dry 49mm |
rainy 80mm |
rainy 288mm |
rainy 141mm |
rainy 226mm |
rainy 76mm |
dry 33mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 38mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 30% |
pockets 16% |
cloudy 50% |
cloudy 67% |
cloudy 73% |
cloudy 86% |
cloudy 74% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 58% |
cloudy 53% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 53% |
| Air quality |
bad 129 US AQI |
bad 106 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 104 US AQI |
okay 90 US AQI |
okay 67 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
bad 106 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
bad 129 US AQI |
bad 132 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 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 | 1,600 people | 1,600 people | 1,550 people | 1,560 people | 1,892 people | 1,569 people | 1,338 people | 1,550 people | 1,500 people | 1,650 people | 1,909 people | 1,860 people |
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