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Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Amalfi or Beijing?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amalfi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Amalfi’s own page.

Choose Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amalfi 64, Beijing 6: Amalfi leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Amalfi 48, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Amalfi 36, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Amalfi 12, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amalfi 82, Beijing 60: Amalfi leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Amalfi 88, Beijing 85: Amalfi leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Amalfi 28, Beijing 64: Beijing leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Amalfi 48, Beijing 69: Beijing leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Amalfi 34, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Amalfi 18, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amalfi 22, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amalfi 32, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amalfi and Beijing.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amalfi
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmalfiBeijing
Official languageItalianPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation6 m43 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmalfiBeijing
City population4,72921,893,095
People per km²8301,334
Museums within 10 km883
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.