| 🎒 Nomad Score™ |
3.24/5 (Rank #317)
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| 👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
| 👶 Family score |
Okay |
| 🎒 Community score |
Okay |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score |
0% is nomad here
|
| 💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,252 / mo
|
| 📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 8 Mbps (avg)
|
| 😝 Fun |
Good |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 27°C80°F (feels 31°C88°F)
|
| 💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 91%
|
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC |
😥 Medium: 60%
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Great: 21 US AQI
|
| 💨 Air quality (annual) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 110 US AQI
|
| 👌 Safety |
Great
|
| 👩 Safe for women |
Good |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ |
Bad |
| 🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
| 🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
| 🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
| ⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
| 🌊 Resilience to climate change |
Good
|
| 💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
|
| 🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
| 🚶 Walkability |
Great |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
| ✈️ Airline scores* |
Great |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* |
Great |
| 😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
| 🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
| 🖥 Places to work from |
Bad |
| ❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Good |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
8 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Yangshuo is fast averaging 64 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~8 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌦 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (91%) = feels 31°C 88°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 21 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 111 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
|
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
|
| 💸 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 |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 10,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 94% 👱♀️ 6% |
| ⛪️ 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 | $1,252 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,003 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,613 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $747 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $688 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $476 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $163,659 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $32 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $74 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ 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
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ 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) |
1050° cold |
1457° cool |
1559° cool |
1966° mild |
2373° mild |
3086° warm |
3391° hot |
3391° hot |
3188° hot |
2068° mild |
1661° cool |
1254° cool |
| Real (median) |
1050°
cool |
1457°
cool |
1559°
cool |
1965°
mild |
2374°
warm |
2679°
warm |
2882°
very warm |
2882°
very warm |
2781°
warm |
2069°
mild |
1660°
cool |
1254°
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 63% |
damp 74% |
damp 84% |
nice 88% |
nice 91% |
sweaty 92% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 81% |
nice 77% |
damp 73% |
nice 68% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 7mm |
rainy 86mm |
rainy 133mm |
rainy 207mm |
rainy 382mm |
rainy 346mm |
rainy 167mm |
rainy 205mm |
rainy 102mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 90mm |
dry 5mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 75% |
cloudy 71% |
cloudy 87% |
overcast 90% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 76% |
cloudy 81% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 61% |
cloudy 57% |
| Air quality |
bad 138 US AQI |
bad 123 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
okay 98 US AQI |
okay 78 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 102 US AQI |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 132 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 900 people | 600 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 800 people | 600 people | 600 people |
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