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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beijing or Kochi?

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

  • nightlife
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Kochi for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Kochi’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, Kochi 38: Kochi leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Kochi 66: Beijing leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Kochi 62: Beijing leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Kochi 18: Beijing leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Kochi 55: Beijing leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Kochi 52: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Kochi 40: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Kochi 44: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Kochi 45: Beijing leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Kochi 88: Kochi leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Kochi 40: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Kochi 70: Kochi leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Kochi.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on nightlife and day trips with your weighting.

Kochi
52match

Wins on beaches 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.

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

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kochi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingKochi
Official languagePutonghuaHindi, English
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119108 or 112
Elevation43 m0 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingKochi
City population21,893,095677,381
People per km²1,3347,138
Museums within 10 km834
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.