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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Beijing or La Romana?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose La Romana for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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, La Romana 84: La Romana leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, La Romana 38: Beijing leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, La Romana 24: Beijing leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, La Romana 30: Beijing leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, La Romana 62: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, La Romana 52: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, La Romana 56: Beijing leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, La Romana 24: Beijing leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, La Romana 28: Beijing leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, La Romana 50: Beijing leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, La Romana 17: Beijing leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, La Romana 44: Beijing leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and La Romana.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingLa Romana
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingLa Romana
City population21,893,095139,238
People per km²1,334512
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.