About NomadTiming
NomadTiming answers one question better than anyone: where should you base yourself, in what season, given your budget, your working hours and what you want from a place, and why.
What NomadTiming is
Most tools for digital nomads are noisy, dated, paywalled, or miss the one dimension that matters most for a multi-month stay: when in the year a place actually works. NomadTiming is built around that. You set a monthly budget, how long you're staying, where your team sits and up to three priorities, and a living globe ranks real nomad bases by how well they fit, right now.
The catalogue is 46 hand-picked bases across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa and the Middle East, from established hubs like Lisbon, Chiang Mai and Mexico City to rising spots like Tbilisi, Da Nang and Siargao. Quality over quantity: every base carries sourced data on cost, internet, coworking, visa, timezone, safety, housing and its best months.
How the fit score works
Every base gets a 0 to 100 score for the exact setup you configure. The score is a weighted average of up to eight factors, and it's never shown alone. Every base breaks it down under "Why this score", so a number always comes with its reasons.
Two things run before scoring. Hard filters exclude a base outright when you can't afford it even frugally, when its visa won't cover your stay (and it has no nomad visa), or when you require rock-solid internet and it can't deliver. Then the soft priorities you pick count double; everything else counts once.
| Factor | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Cost | Your monthly budget against the base's real cost of living, scaled for a solo, couple or family setup and the length of your stay. |
| Internet | Median download speed and reliability, the deal-breaker for remote work. |
| Community | How established the nomad scene is, plus the coworking density and whether spaces are call-friendly. |
| Nature | Whether the base is strong for nature and the outdoors: beaches, surf, mountains, trails. |
| City & food | City life, food and nightlife, the everyday texture of a big base. |
| Safety | A coarse safety and stability rating from recognised sources. |
| Timezone | How much the base's working hours overlap with your team's, only scored when you set a timezone anchor. |
| Climate | How well your chosen months hit the base's best season, with a penalty for rainy/monsoon months. |
When a base is missing a datapoint, that factor is dropped and the rest are re-weighted, a base is never penalised for a gap, and the panel says "Score based on N of M signals" so you know. The factor curves are built to spread results, so the ranking is informative rather than a wall of identical numbers.
About the data & confidence
NomadTiming v1 ships static, hand-curated data, no live APIs. Because of that, most measured values are labelled estimated (from sources like Numbeo and the Speedtest Global Index) rather than verified, and every datapoint shows its source, date and confidence on a small marker. Nothing is invented: where a value can't be credibly sourced it reads "No data" and drops out of the score.
Visa figures assume a typical EU/US/UK passport and describe the simplest tourist entry, always verify against the official source before you rely on them.