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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 20 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👩 Safe for women | |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability 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 | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
7 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Harbin is fast averaging 56 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~7 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 20°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (52%) = feels 21°C 70°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 110 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | 共乐街道 |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.47 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 147 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Harbin Walker Coffee Hotel |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | USABUCKS Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Holiday Inn-Harbin City Centre |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 11,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Roomorama |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Flying Dragon Aviation |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Jewish Private Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,463 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $823 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,801 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $515 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $988 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,143 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $332 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $176,822 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $46 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $186 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $8,473 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ 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) |
-22-8° freezing |
-1210° freezing |
236° cold |
1050° cold |
1864° cool |
2373° mild |
3595° hot |
2373° mild |
1966° mild |
1254° cool |
-425° freezing |
-163° freezing |
| Real (median) |
-171°
freezing |
-917°
freezing |
439°
very cold |
1152°
cool |
1864°
cool |
2373°
mild |
2984°
very warm |
2373°
mild |
1965°
mild |
1254°
cool |
-229°
freezing |
-1112°
freezing |
| Humidity |
nice 56% |
nice 64% |
nice 66% |
nice 31% |
nice 47% |
nice 65% |
sweaty 81% |
nice 81% |
nice 76% |
nice 54% |
damp 84% |
nice 70% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
dry 6mm |
dry 7mm |
dry 17mm |
dry 14mm |
rainy 66mm |
rainy 102mm |
rainy 145mm |
rainy 141mm |
rainy 81mm |
dry 11mm |
dry 19mm |
dry 7mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 23% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 28% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 39% |
pockets 48% |
cloudy 54% |
pockets 50% |
pockets 43% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 42% |
pockets 24% |
| Air quality |
bad 172 US AQI |
bad 160 US AQI |
bad 149 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 116 US AQI |
bad 112 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
okay 95 US AQI |
bad 108 US AQI |
bad 124 US AQI |
bad 131 US AQI |
bad 136 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 1 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 1 UVI |
safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 900 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 600 people | 900 people | 600 people | 600 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people |
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