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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Beijing or Deer Valley?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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, Deer Valley 10: Deer Valley leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Deer Valley 38: Beijing leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Deer Valley 15: Beijing leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Deer Valley 25: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Deer Valley 38: Beijing leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Deer Valley 60: Beijing leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Deer Valley 50: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Deer Valley 25: Beijing leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Deer Valley 4: Beijing leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Deer Valley 30: Beijing leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Deer Valley 52: Beijing leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Deer Valley.

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 prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and 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
15 hdaylight a day

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingDeer Valley
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m2,474 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingDeer Valley
City population21,893,095-
People per km²1,334-
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.