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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Beijing or Miami Beach?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Miami Beach 62: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Miami Beach 52: Beijing leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Miami Beach 52: Beijing leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Miami Beach 55: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Miami Beach 60: Beijing leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Miami Beach 58: Beijing leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Miami Beach 55: Beijing leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Miami Beach 20: Beijing leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Miami Beach 55: Beijing leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Miami Beach 48: Beijing leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 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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BeijingMiami Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingMiami Beach
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 m1 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingMiami Beach
City population21,893,09582,890
People per km²1,3342,109
Museums within 10 km8314
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.