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Penang

Malaysia · UTC+8

75out of 100
Your passportFrance passport: visa-free entry, 90 days. The nomad visa is for beyond that.

The eight criteria

Connection85
national band
Cost of living86
surveyed price
Safety84
national band
Community90
proxy
Climate55
national climate
Visa96
your passport
Coworking85
proxy
Time zone17
computed
The nomad visa

DE Rantau Nomad Pass (2022)

All 199 passports, in The Keyring
Shared hours

2 working hours shared with Western Europe.

0 with the US east coast.

The season

Climatically workable months: January, February, December.

The Carnet

169 addresses in Penang, 20 of them cafés, in the Circle’s Carnet.

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Penang has no hand-written dossier: we measure neither its real speeds, nor its coworking spaces, nor its community on the ground. The figures above are computed — the label under each says where it comes from. What is certain: the entry right, the shared working hours and the season.

Where Penang stands

75/100 — rank 423 of the 834 cities scored, and 45 of the 251 in Asia. A score on its own says nothing; its position explains it.

What carries it: Communauté nomad (90/100, rank 2), Coworkings dispo (85/100, rank 9). What holds it back: Climat (55/100, rank 802), Timezone (EU+US) (17/100, rank 738).

The six closest profiles

Closeness is computed across all eight scores, not the overall one: two cities at 80 may have nothing in common — one expensive and safe, the other cheap and loud. It is the shape of the profile that matches.