Frontpage
🌗 Dark mode
❤️ Your favorites
🚑 Nomad insurance
| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 1 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 |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
8 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Zhongshan is fast averaging 64 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~8 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌦 31°C 88°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 42°C 108°F
|
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 95 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 | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 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 | $1,157 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $554 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,429 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $408 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,112 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $622 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $208 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $215,729 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $20 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $74 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $13,390 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $2 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ 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) |
1864° cool |
2475° warm |
2577° warm |
2984° warm |
42108° scorching |
39102° hot |
42108° scorching |
39102° hot |
38100° hot |
2984° warm |
2373° mild |
1966° mild |
| Real (median) |
1864°
cool |
2474°
warm |
2576°
warm |
2679°
warm |
3289°
hot |
3086°
very warm |
3188°
hot |
3086°
hot |
3086°
hot |
2679°
warm |
2374°
warm |
1966°
mild |
| Humidity |
nice 65% |
nice 73% |
nice 77% |
nice 78% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 82% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 69% |
nice 71% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 2mm |
rainy 56mm |
dry 28mm |
rainy 76mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 198mm |
rainy 202mm |
rainy 261mm |
rainy 87mm |
dry 34mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 33mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 39% |
pockets 17% |
cloudy 68% |
cloudy 74% |
cloudy 75% |
cloudy 87% |
cloudy 74% |
cloudy 81% |
cloudy 64% |
cloudy 50% |
cloudy 55% |
pockets 47% |
| Air quality |
bad 128 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
okay 87 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
okay 65 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
bad 106 US AQI |
bad 130 US AQI |
bad 123 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people |
|
|
||||||||||||
If you'd like to filter destinations based on their climate, try Nomads.com's Climate Finder
Current weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Based on Zhongshan's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 42° 108° 31° 88° Has AC 🥵 AQI 42 🚕1h $2,505 / mo 9 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87° Has AC 🥵 AQI 25 🚕1h $5,060 / mo 91 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87° Has AC 🥵 AQI 53 😷 🚕1h $1,778 / mo 9 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87° Has AC 🥵 AQI 42 🚕2h $1,420 / mo 12 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° Has AC 🥵 AQI 59 😷 🚕2h $1,908 / mo 10 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 31° 88° Has AC AQI 46 🚕2h $1,676 / mo 7 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 45° 113° 31° 89° Has AC 🥵 AQI 50 🚕2h $1,361 / mo 10 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° Has AC AQI 7 🚕3h $3,075 / mo 76 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86° Has AC 🥵 AQI 53 😷 🚕3h $1,045 / mo 9 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 28° 83° Has AC 🥵 AQI 25 ✈️21min $1,439 / mo 9 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 87° Has AC 🥵 AQI 25 ✈️27min $1,307 / mo 8 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 30° 86° Has AC 🥵 AQI 57 😷 ✈️28min $1,398 / mo 91 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 35 ✈️17h $7,427 / mo 27 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 29° 85° Has AC 🥵 AQI 34 ✈️57min $1,612 / mo 6 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 89° Has AC AQI 34 ✈️3h $6,112 / mo 102 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 31° 88° Has AC AQI 46 🚕2h $1,676 / mo 7 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° Has AC 🥵 AQI 139 😷 ✈️2h $1,410 / mo 6 Mbps
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 39° 102° 31° 87° Has AC AQI 43 ✈️10h $4,634 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75° AQI 34 ✈️11h $3,752 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63° AQI 27 ✈️11h $7,668 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 18° 65° ✈️12h $6,986 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 78° Barely AC AQI 43 ✈️12h $5,454 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 36° 97° 31° 88° Barely AC 🥵 AQI 2 ✈️12h $6,243 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 27° 81° Barely AC 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️12h $6,550 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63° AQI 52 😷 ✈️12h $6,783 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 20° 68° AQI 22 ✈️12h $9,355 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 41 ✈️12h $6,057 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72° AQI 42 ✈️13h $8,570 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70° AQI 28 ✈️13h $7,541 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61° AQI 36 ✈️13h $7,535 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 39° 102° 40° 105° Has AC AQI 34 ✈️16h $6,767 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68° AQI 50 ✈️17h $5,314 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people
No members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
Can't login? See the FAQ
Nomads.com
By signing up, you agree to our terms of service and community guidelines.
One-time-payment: $19.99
Billed once. Then never again. 7-day money back guarantee
✅ 7-day money back guarantee
Nomads.com members
work remotely at
Nomads.com
💖 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!
