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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 47 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* | |
| 😄 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 | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
7 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Xiamen is fast averaging 56 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~7 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (71%) = feels 39°C 102°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 83 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 71 US AQI |
| 🔌 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 | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 🦷 Fluoride added | 🚫 No fluoride added |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,090,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 20,890 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 4,600,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $13,862 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $1,795 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,129 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,838 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $525 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,483 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,459 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $349 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $777,152 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $69 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $81 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $75 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $24,398 / year |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ 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) |
1559° cool |
1457° cool |
1864° cool |
2272° mild |
3086° warm |
3493° hot |
3697° hot |
3697° hot |
3493° hot |
2984° warm |
2170° mild |
1864° cool |
| Real (median) |
1559°
cool |
1458°
cool |
1865°
mild |
2271°
mild |
2780°
warm |
2883°
very warm |
3085°
very warm |
3085°
very warm |
2984°
very warm |
2680°
warm |
2171°
mild |
1763°
cool |
| Humidity |
damp 72% |
damp 76% |
nice 77% |
nice 77% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 73% |
nice 72% |
damp 71% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 1mm |
dry 46mm |
dry 34mm |
rainy 54mm |
rainy 174mm |
rainy 148mm |
rainy 98mm |
rainy 248mm |
rainy 67mm |
rainy 51mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 42mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 28% |
pockets 23% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 77% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 65% |
cloudy 58% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 48% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 57% |
| Air quality |
okay 86 US AQI |
okay 85 US AQI |
okay 92 US AQI |
okay 89 US AQI |
okay 80 US AQI |
okay 61 US AQI |
okay 62 US AQI |
okay 70 US AQI |
okay 71 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,200 people | 900 people | 1,400 people | 600 people | 600 people | 1,200 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 840 people | 840 people | 1,050 people |
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