From the manifesto
Most "best cities for nomads" lists are marketing. Surround is the opposite — a cold, instrumented read on where you can actually live and work right now.
Surround editorial · 2026
Rent, groceries, transit, a coffee. We re-index 142 cities every month from real receipts — not government averages. The cheapest fit, surfaced first.
Median download. Fiber availability. Coworking-grade upload. Hotel-room reliability. Surround pings the network from every city, every day. No more lying ISP marketing.
22°C and dry? 18°C and rainy? Surround reads 12 months of microclimate per city — humidity, rainfall, sun, wind — and matches what you actually want to live in.
Income threshold, application cost, processing time, renewal terms, tax exposure. Surround tracks every digital-nomad visa worldwide and tells you which one would actually take you.
If your team works in San Francisco and Berlin, Surround returns the cities that share at least 4 working hours with both — sorted by everything else you care about.
Surround listens to every public signal a city emits — and a few private ones we built ourselves. Then the model returns a single fit score, broken down by what matters to you.
Explore the sensor stack →Free during beta. No credit card. Cancel from the dashboard. Built by nomads, for nomads.