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Mount Hagen as a nomad hub

Off the Radar Steady

Hub index for September 2026.

Hub score 15 out of 100, percentile-weighted
Global rank #2,790 of 2,985 ranked cities
Country rank #5 in Papua New Guinea
Travel interest -36% Wikivoyage share vs a year ago, against the typical city

What makes up this hub score

Most parts are percentiles among all cities (90 means ahead of 90% of them); events and communities are scored against the busiest cities.

AI hub factors 4
Events 0
Communities 0
Fundamentals 11
Wikipedia reach 25
International pull 16
Travel intent 79
AI hub factors
Nomad popularity, meetups, community presence, networking, coworking and nomad cafés, from our AI city scores.
Events
0 upcoming in-person events in the next 60 days.
Communities
0 live groups.
Fundamentals
Nomad score, internet speed and cost of living.
Wikipedia reach
27,622 Wikipedia reads in the last 12 months in English, German, French, Spanish and the local languages.
International pull
Share of that reading in languages other than the country's own.
Travel intent
2,752 Wikivoyage reads against its Wikipedia reading.

Reading over 24 months

Monthly human reads of the city's articles, with news spikes capped.

Source: Wikimedia page views (human traffic). Momentum compares the last three months with the same months a year earlier, as a share of all reading.

Hub score over 12 months