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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0.

Beijing or Boca Raton?

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 Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’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. Beijing 6, Boca Raton 82: Boca Raton leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Boca Raton 44: Beijing leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Boca Raton 28: Beijing leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Boca Raton 32: Beijing leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Boca Raton 50: Beijing leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Boca Raton 60: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Boca Raton 62: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Boca Raton 18: Beijing leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Boca Raton 54: Beijing leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Boca Raton 22: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Boca Raton 33: Beijing leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Boca Raton 42: Beijing leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Boca Raton.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingBoca Raton
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m4 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingBoca Raton
City population21,893,09597,422
People per km²1,3341,203
Museums within 10 km835
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.